Mangione

Mangione
PronunciationItalian: [manˈdʒoːne]
Origin
LanguageItalian
Meaning'someone who eats a lot'[1]
Region of originItaly
Other names
Variant formsMangioni, Mangion

Mangione is an Italian surname meaning 'someone who eats a lot', from the verb mangiare. The name is common in southern Italy, primarily in Apulia and Sicily.[2]

People

Families

  • Mangione family of New York:
    • Chuck Mangione (1940–2025), American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer
    • Gap Mangione (born 1938), American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
    • Jerre Mangione (1909–1998), American writer and scholar of the Sicilian-American experience
  • Mangione family of Maryland:

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Mangione

References

  1. ^ "Mangióne". Vocabolario Treccani (in Italian). Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Mangione Surname". forebears.io. Forebears. Retrieved 10 December 2024.