Manera Family History

Italian (mainly northwestern; Manèra):: habitational name from either of two places called Manera in Cuneo and Como provinces.

nickname or perhaps a metonymic occupational name from the dialect word manèra ‘(executioner's) ax’ also ‘cleaver’ or from the archaic adjective manero ‘well-behaved skilled’.

from a Frankish name composed of the ancient Germanic elements magin ‘strength might’ + hari ‘army’ which became Mainero in Italy.