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A variety of distinguished and notable names have emerged from the beautiful and historical Italian region of Tuscany, including the notable surname Adriani. During the Middle Ages, as populations grew and travel between regions became more frequent, people in Tuscany, who had been going by a single name, found it necessary to adopt a second name to identify themselves and their families. This process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries, but it was not completed until the modern era. The patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, was one of the most common name types of name created in this region. The surname Adriani was created from the given name Hadrianus or son or descendant of Hadrianus.
The surname Adriani was first found in Florence (Italian: Firenze), where the main branch of the family originates. The earliest record found of the family dates back to 1394, when Andrea di Berto Adriani was a prominent parish priest in Pino, a town just outside Florence.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Adriani research. The years 1464, 1498, 1512, 1513 and 1521 are included under the topic Early Adriani History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Enormous variation in spelling and form characterizes those Italian names that originated in the medieval era. This is caused by two main factors: regional tradition, and inaccuracies in the recording process. Before the last few hundred years, scribes spelled names according to their sounds. Spelling variations were the unsurprising result. The variations of Adriani include Adriano and Adriani. and others.
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Discovered in the immigration and passenger lists were a number of people bearing the name Adriani: Pietro Adriani who arrived in Illinois in 1877 at the age of 26, and another Adriani who arrived at an Eastern port around the turn of the century.