Notice:
A Heraldic Traces is a dossier prepared by an artificial intelligence program useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists. The presence of a Heraldic Traces indicates that there is information to draft a heraldic document after carrying out a professional thorough search.
You may be interested
Grilletti is absolutely rare, Grilli is typical of the central north with strains also in Puglia and Campania, Grillini is specific to Bologna, Grillo is absolutely Panitalian, except for Sardinia, Grillone is specific to the province of Catanzaro, Stalettì, Botricello, Catanzaro and Montauro, Grilloni, almost unique, should be due to errors of transcription of the previous one, they should all derive, directly or through hypochoristic or accretive ones, derive from the medieval name Grillus of which we have an example in the Diplomatic Code of medieval Lombardy at 1188 a Sartirana: "... atque affirmacione et consensu consulum eiusdem loci Callosius et Petrus de Rizolo et Otto Grillus et Rufinus de Campo necnon et aliorum bonorum hominum credencie, hii sunt Guibertus et Petrus Calegarius et Iohannes Cerrutus et Iacobus de Purciano ...", name that should derive from the medieval Germanic name Grill or Gril, but a derivation from the middle name is also possible French Grillet, which always means cricket and presupposes an attribution of gaiety referring to the founders, but it is also possible that they derive from place names.
Buy a heraldic document with your coat of arms
It is possible to do a preliminary research in our archive. About 100,000 heraldic traces, origins of surnames, coat of arms and blazons are available free of charge. Just write the desired last name in the form below and press enter.
Verba Volant, Scripta Manent
