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Mai is decidedly Lombard from Milan, but also from San Giacomo delle Segnate in Mantua, Varese, Lodi and Brescia, with a stock also in Emilia in Modena and Modena and one in Rome, Maietti has a stock in the South and the Lodi area in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, one in Ferrara and Argenta in the Ferrara area, one in Terracina in the Latino area, the probable outcome of emigration during the Pontina reclamation, and one in Naples, Maietto, almost unique, is from the Viterbo area, Maj is typically Lombard, of Schilpario in the Bergamo area and of Vimercate and Milan in the Milan area, Maio is widespread in the centrosud, Majo, very rare, has stocks in the Chieti and Palermo areas, these surnames should derive, directly or through hypocorisms, from the medieval name Majo (May) attributed to children born in that month, we have an example of this use in Irpinia in a paper of 1015: "... tradidit michi ad tenendum et laborandum Maio, filio Domnelli, a pecia de terra cum shrub bitatum, quod abuit in locum So lofre ... ".
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