I think that annt might be right. They might have named the families after the most powerful or first boss of the family. The Gambino family was the Anastasia family before Carlo Gambino killed Anastasia and named the family after himself.


People can change!
"A f****in jerk like me. Never had nothing in my life. That's not John Gotti. At least I hope that's not me. Maybe I see myself in a light that I'm not in, I don't know."-John Gotti about greed
"We only kill each other."-Benjamin Siegel
"There's no such thing as good money or bad money. There's only money."-Lucky LucianO
R.I.P Mr. Gotti