as a Last Name
- 2,027
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Genova
Meaning & Origins
Italian: habitational name from Genoa (Italian Genova) in Liguria, which during the Middle Ages was one of the great seaports of the Mediterranean and a flourishing mercantile and financial center. The origin of the name of the city is uncertain. It has been associated with Latin janua ‘door’, but is more probably of pre-Roman origin. The surname in its various forms is distributed throughout southern Italy, Genova and Genovese being particularly common in Calabria and Sicily.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,027
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Connecticut
- has the most people named Genova per capita
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