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Boy · Italian
Cione
Say it: CHOH-neh
Meaning
A medieval Tuscan short form taken from the ending of longer names; which names it shortened is uncertain.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
The painter brothers Nardo, Andrea (Orcagna) and Jacopo di Cione were named in the Florentine way after their father Cione.
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.
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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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