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hello, my fathers name given to him by his italian mother was johan, can anyone tell me if this a common italian name or an italian name at all, thankyou all, regards, john
jolynn wrote:hello, my fathers name given to him by his italian mother was johan, can anyone tell me if this a common italian name or an italian name at all, thankyou all, regards, john
Johan is John. The name is Eastern European. I think German. If your family lived near a northern border of Italy, they might have given a child that name. Otherwise, they might have thought Johan was an English name. The child also could have been named in honor of someone.
Giovanni Caboto, son of Giulio, was born in Gaeta, Italy, around 1451 AD. After the Aragonese defeated the Angevins in 1461, his family took refuge in Venice where the young Giovanni grew up, got married to Mattea about 1870 and had three children: Ludovico, Sebastiano, and Sancto. His dream was to ...
