Dionisio History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Italy

From the ancient and picturesque Italian region of Venice emerged a variety of distinguished names, including the notable surname Dionisio. Although people were originally known only by a single name, it became necessary for people to adopt a second name to identify themselves as populations grew and travel became more frequent. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames was not complete until the modern era, but the use of hereditary family names in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries. Italian hereditary surnames were developed according to fairly general principles and they are characterized by a profusion of derivatives coined from given names. Although the most traditional type of family name found in the region of Venice is the patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, local surnames are also found. Local names, which are the least frequent of the major types of surnames found in Italy, are derived from a place-name where the original bearer once resided or held land. Often Italian local surnames bore the prefix "di," which signifies emigration from one place to another, but does not necessarily denote nobility. The Dionisio family lived in the city of Verona, where members of the Dionisi family were involved in the Noble Council in 1422.

Early Origins of the Dionisio family

The surname Dionisio was first found in the city of Verona, where members of the Dionisi family were involved in the Noble Council in 1422.

Early History of the Dionisio family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Dionisio research. The years 1736, 1797, 1818, 1819, 1824 and 1830 are included under the topic Early Dionisio History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Dionisio Spelling Variations

Italian surnames come in far more variations than the names of most other nationalities. Regional traditions and dialects are a decisive factor in this characteristic. For example, northern names tend to end in "o", while southern in "i". Also important, but not unique to Italy, was the fact that before dictionaries and the printing press most scribes simply spelled words according to their sounds. The predictable result was an enormous number of spelling variations. The recorded spellings of Dionisio include Dionisio, Dioniso, Donio, Dionisotti, Dionisi, Dionis, Doniso, Donisi, D'Onise, D'Onisi, Addonisio, Addonizio, Denisi, Dionigi and many more.

Early Notables of the Dionisio family

Prominent among members of the family was Paolo Dionisi of Verona during the 16th century, who studied at the University of Padua and became a teacher of medicine; Filippo Lorenzo Dionisi of Rome was a theologian and philosopher with exceptional talents in Latin literature. He became a priest in 1736. Giovanni Iacopo Dionisi was a priest in Verona around this time. A later individual of the Dionisio lineage was Carlo Dionisotti, born in 1824, a prominent lawyer in Vercelli.Gaetano Donizetti was born at Bergamo, Nov. 29 [App. p.617 "Nov. 25"], 1797, six years after Rossini; and though he began his career...
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Dionisio Ranking

In the United States, the name Dionisio is the 18,260^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Dionisio migration to the United States +

Early North American immigration records have revealed a number of people bearing the name Dionisio or a variant listed above:

Dionisio Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Josef Dionisio, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1803 2
Leandro Dionisio, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1860 2

Dionisio Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

Domenico Dionisio, aged 40, who landed in America from Ofena, Italy, in 1910
Angelo Dionisio, aged 19, who landed in America from Ischitella, Italy, in 1913
Antonio Dionisio, aged 53, who immigrated to the United States from S. Ippolito, Italy, in 1913
Carmina Dionisio, aged 28, who settled in America from S. Angelo, Italy, in 1913
Concetta Dionisio, aged 35, who immigrated to the United States from Pozzillo, Italy, in 1920

Contemporary Notables of the name Dionisio (post 1700) +

Silvia Dionisio (b. 1951), Italian actress
Jethro "The Jet" Dionisio (b. 1972), Philippine shooter at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Christian Corrêa Dionisio (b. 1975), Brazilian retired footballer
Ralph Joshua Dela Cruz Dionisio (b. 1994), Filipino actor
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (1760-1805), Spanish naval officer, cartographer and explorer who mapped the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of Georgia; he was the first European circumnavigate Vancouver Island
Dionisio Fierros Álvarez (1827-1894), Spanish painter in the Romantic style
Dionisio Anzilotti (1867-1950), Italian jurist
Dionisio Gutierrez Mayorga (b. 1959),
Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849), Spanish classical guitarist and composer

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)