Where did my surname come from?
My surname is Del Vecchio and i have read it was adopted by jewish people many years ago after reading this site im not sure what it means was my name started by italians or jewish?
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Del%20Vecchio-family-history.ashx
or does anyone know anything about the name?
This is the source. It seems to be the name of some Jewish Italians. It is also probably the name of non-Jewish Italians. Names are not usually started, they develop due to occupation, physical attributes, etc.
Del Vecchio Name Meaning and History
Italian (Del Vecchio) and Jewish (from Italy): literally ‘of or belonging to the old one’ (see Vecchio), hence a name denoting the son, associate, or servant of a man dubbed ‘The Old Man’. According to tradition this name was taken by various Jewish families long established in Italy (allegedly since the capture of Jerusalem by the Romans in ad70) to distinguish themselves from later arrivals who migrated there on being expelled from the Iberian Peninsula after 1492.
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