Bonito Family History
- Bonito Name Meaning
- Southern Italian: from the personal name Bonito, from Latin Bonitus. Italian: habitational name from the village of Bonito in Avellino province, Campania. Spanish and Portuguese: nickname from bonito ‘pretty’. Spanish and Portuguese: possibly from bonito ‘tuna’, probably denoting a fisherman.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,319 Historical Documents with Bonito on Ancestry
- 9,128 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,701 Census and Voter Lists
- 610 Military Records
- 1,303 Immigration Records
- 1,577 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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