as a Last Name
- 1,822
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Bologna
Meaning & Origins
Italian: habitational name from the city of Bologna in northern Italy. In early classical times this was an independent Tuscan city called Felsina, but was renamed Bononia (a derivative of Celtic bona ‘foundation’, ‘settlement’) when it became a Roman colony in 190 bc.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,822
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Connecticut
- has the most people named Bologna per capita
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