Show ContentsDemauro History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The surname Demauro came from the personal name Mauro, which is itself derived from the Latin name Maurus.

Early Origins of the Demauro family

The surname Demauro was first found in Milan (Italian: Milano, Milanese: Milan), the second-most populous city in Italy and the capital of Lombardy with Gandolfo Maurello, who moved his family to Sicily around 1205.

Early History of the Demauro family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Demauro research. The years 1571 and 1871 are included under the topic Early Demauro History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Demauro Spelling Variations

There are many variations of most of those Italian names that originated in the medieval era. Some of these come from regional differences, like the tradition of ending northern names in "o" and southern names in "i". Others come from inaccuracies in the recording process, which were extremely common in the eras before dictionaries standardized spelling. Some of the spelling variations of Demauro are Mauro, Mauri, Maur, Maura, De Mauro, Di Mauro, Maurich, Mauric, Maurovic, Lo Mauro, Maurello, Mauricio, Maurigi, Mauruzi, Mauriello, Maurelli, Maurel, Maurino, Maurini and many more.

Early Notables of the Demauro family

Prominent among bearers of this family in early times was Lico Francesco Mauro, a famous mathematician during the late 15th century from Messina. Nicol Mauruzi was a very famous military Captain who was in command of the Florentine troupes and achieved the greatest victories of the 15th century. Mauro Mauri was a renowned author...
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Migration of the Demauro family

In the immigration and passenger lists were a number of people bearing the name Demauro Francesca Mauricio, who arrived in New Orleans in 1778, Rosana and Anna Mauro, who sailed aboard the SS Letimbro from Palermo to New York, arriving December 3, 1888, Antonia Mauro, arrived in New York on 25 July 1896 aboard the S.S. Olympia from Naples, and A. Delmauro, who arrived in New York in 1891 aboard the S.S. Anglia..


Contemporary Notables of the name Demauro (post 1700) +

  • Peter DeMauro, American politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 29th District, 1990 1
  • Tullio De Mauro (1932-2017), Italian linguist, a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome


  1. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 15) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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