as a Last Name
- 3,329
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Carnevale
Meaning & Origins
Italian: from carnevale ‘festival’ (from carnelevare ‘fast’, literally ‘removal of meat’; it was the normal practice to have a riotous carnival before a period of solemn fast such as Lent, and this gradually acquired a greater significance than the fast itself and usurped the meaning of the word). This was sometimes used as a personal name (Italian Varnevale, also Carlevario; Latin Carnelevarius), probably bestowed on someone born at the time of a carnival, or a nickname for someone with a particularly festive spirit.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,329
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Carnevale per capita
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