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Emidio de Felice, the maestro of Italian anthroponymy and author of I Cognomi Italiani (Bologna: Il mulino, 1981) and Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (Milano: A. Mondadori, 1978), has estimated that no fewer than 15 per cent of all Italian surnames have their origin in nicknames.
Hanks and Hodges and de Felice say that most of these nicknames could also be bestowed ironically.
There is a whole class of Italian surnames that were given to foundlings, including variations of Trovato (trovato past participle of trovare to find; trovatello foundling), Proietto (proietto ejected or rejected), Innocenti , and Nocenti (given to all children taken into Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti orphanage; the name was also given to those who were innocent of evil, or simple-minded), Ignoto ( ignoto unknown), and Esposito or Sposito (esposto exposed), which de Felice has found to be the most common name in Naples.
According to de Felice's extensive studies of phone books and other records (much of his research is financed by SEAT , Italy's telephone service), the most common of all surnames in Calabria is Rotundo , which means obese.
Baro or Barro ( baro cheat) was the boring option for christening thieves; more interesting choices included Mangiavacchi vacchi a plural of vacca cow), Mangiagalli ( gallo rooster), or Fumagalli ( fumare to smoke; de Felice says that such thieves would smoke the chickenkeeper out to get his charges).