Buonaccorso

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Buonaccorso

Say it: bwon-ak-KOR-soh

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Meaning

From Italian buon 'good' and accorso 'help, aid', so 'good help'.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

Used by

Italian

Famous bearers

Buonaccorso Pitti, Florentine merchant and diarist

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Where this comes from

Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427

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