On 23 Jun 2004 19:36:28 -0700, [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote: >This is the first I have ever heard of >the last name Guarino being from that part of our world. Has anyone >else heard this before? If anyone can shine some light upon this, it >would be greatly appreciated. > >Thank you, >Shar Really not unusual, my surname is found in Spain as well as all over Italy. It simply indicates that at some point someone with that surname moved to Spain and then people with that name wound up in the Philipines when they were a Spanish possesion. As an aside, there are many Italian surnames in Mexico, because not a few of the troops who were with the Spanish when thry ruled there were actually Italian. Freddie

"Freddie the Crook Finder" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > On 23 Jun 2004 19:36:28 -0700, [email protected] > ([email protected]) wrote: > > >This is the first I have ever heard of > >the last name Guarino being from that part of our world. Has anyone > >else heard this before? If anyone can shine some light upon this, it > >would be greatly appreciated. > > > >Thank you, > >Shar > > Really not unusual, my surname is found in Spain as well as all over > Italy. It simply indicates that at some point someone with that > surname moved to Spain and then people with that name wound up in the > Philipines when they were a Spanish possesion. As an aside, there are > many Italian surnames in Mexico, because not a few of the troops who > were with the Spanish when thry ruled there were actually Italian. > > Freddie Good comment by Freddie. I cannot find a Philllipine White Page Directory on the Internet, but if you go to the Spain White Pages at http://www.infobel.com/Spain/ you will find 181 Guarino listings. Joe in Texas

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:42:25 GMT, [email protected] (Freddie the Crook Finder) wrote: >It simply indicates that at some point someone with that >surname moved to Spain [...] It's more probable the Guarino's in Italy were of Spanish descent. Actually, many surnames in Naples are of Spanish origin, as that area was ruled by Spain.

This is but a short description of the name "Guarino" taken from the "Dizionario Dei Cognomi Italiani", by Emidio De Felice. The name has many different forms and has variants in France. But according to the "Dictionary of Italian Surnames" it is originally Italian. "Guarino. Varianti: Guarini, Guerino e Guerini, Garin, Varini e Varin. Alterati: Guariniello, Guarinoni. // Diffuso in tutta l'Italia, ma frequente solo nel Sud, e spec, nel Napoletano (dove e specifico Guariniello), nella forma Guarino; Guarino. Varying: Guarini, Guerino and Guerini, Garin, Varini and Varin. Altered: Guariniello, Guarinoni. / / Diffused in the whole Italy, but frequent only in the South and spec, in the Neapolitan (where and specific Guariniello), in the form Guarino; " The paragraph on this Surname is longer than what I have provided and also give variants with "W". Mike Setaro Caserta, Italia