Niño History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Niño

What does the name Niño mean?

The Niño surname is a patronymic or plural form of Nino.

Early Origins of the Niño family

The surname Niño was first found in Siena a city in Tuscany, capital of the province of Siena. Notable is the university but the cathedral and other fine buildings present a beauty, rich in Italian art which is unequalled. Many of the buildings are from the 12th, 13th and 14th century but the history precedes to the time of Augustus. In those ancient times only persons of rank, the podesta, clergy, city officials, army officers, artists, landowners were entered into the records. To be recorded at this time, at the beginning of recorded history, was of itself a great distinction and indicative of noble ancestry.

Early History of the Niño family

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Niño Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Nini, Nino, Ninio and others.

Early Notables of the Niño family

Giovanni Battista Nini (1717-1786), an Italian engraver, sculptor, known for terra cotta medallions. Girolamo Nanni was a 17th-century Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He is known to have frescoed in the chapel of the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme and in the chapel of the Assumption of...
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Niño Ranking

the United States, the name Niño is the 6,111^st most popular surname with an estimated 4,974 people with that name. 1

Niño migration to the United States +

Niño Settlers in United States in the 16th Century

Alonso Nino, who arrived in America in 1526
Alonso Nino, who was among passengers who left for "Spanish America" in 1526
Rodrigo Nino, who was recorded in Peru in 1578
Martin Nino, who settled in New Granada in 1588
Juana Nino, who settled in New Spain in 1596
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Niño Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

C. Nino, who settled in Baltimore in 1822
Alonso Nino, who landed in America in 1826 2
John Nino, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1855 2
John Nino, who settled in San Francisco in 1855
Manuel Nino, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1860 2

Niño migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 3

Niño Settlers in West Indies in the 16th Century

Andres Nino, who arrived in Dominican Republic in 1539

Contemporary Notables of the name Niño (post 1700) +

Nino Defilippis (1932-2010), Italian cyclist
Nino Crisman (1911-1983), Italian actor and film producer
Nino Longobardi (b. 1953), Italian artist, known for painting and sculpture from Naples
Nino Vella (1992-2024), French composer, pianist, singer, and music producer
Nino DeFranco (b. 1955), Canadian keyboardist, member of The DeFranco Family, featuring Tony DeFranco, a Canadian pop music group, active in the 1970s
Nino Cotone, American composer, known for Something to Do with Death (2018)
Nino Cerruti (1930-2022), Italian businessman and stylist, founder of the haute couture house, Cerruti, in 1967 in Paris, manager of the Italian family business Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti, which was founded in 1881 by his grandfather
Nino Alberto Arbasino (1930-2020), Italian writer and essayist
Nino Oliviero (1918-1980), Italian Academy Award nominated composer

Sources +

"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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies