Bonifacio Family History
Bonifacio Name Meaning
Italian, Portuguese (Bonifácio): from the personal name
Bonifacio (Latin Bonifatius, from bonum ‘good’ +
fatum ‘fate’, ‘destiny’). In Late Latin -ti- and
-ci- came to be pronounced identically; the name was thus often
respelled Bonifacius and assigned the meaning ‘doer of good
deeds’, derived by folk etymology from Latin facere ‘to
do’. Bonifatius was the name of the Roman military governor of
North Africa in 422–32, who was a friend of St. Augustine. It was
also borne by various early Christian saints and was adopted by nine
popes. The personal name was always more popular in Italy (in its
various cognate forms) than elsewhere; the original sense ‘well fated’
remained transparent in Italian, so the name was often bestowed there
for the sake of the good omen.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bonifacio Families
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Scotland
Number of Bonifacio families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bonifacio Family Origin
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Bonifacio Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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| Thread | Author | Replies | |
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| Bonicacia's from Puerto Rico |  | minsklove221b | 0 |
| Staff Sgt. Jerry L. Bonifacio Jr., 28, Iraq War, Oct 2005 | | jasche | 0 |
| Polish roots? | | ib228 | 3 |
| surname bonifacio | | poisongirl183 | 0 |
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