Interesting translate of mobster surnames

Genovese

Liborio S. "Barney" Bellomo = Wonderful Man
[BadWord]
Joseph Bevilacqua= Drink the Water
Philip Bonadonna= foxy woman
Anthony Negri= ni**er

Gambino

Salvatore Pisello= Pea but in italian pea is a another way to say dick

Lucchese

Joseph LaMorte = The Death
Leonard Mangiapane= Breadeater
Michael “Baldy Mike” Spinelli= farsi uno spinello is an another way to say smoking weed

Very good Furio. Here's a few others;

Samuel Cavalieri = Sammy the Knight
Joseph Biondo = Joe the Blond
Carmine Dellacava = Carmine of the quarry
Joseph Riccobono = Joe Good and Rich
Nicky Bianco = Nicky White
Robert Occhipinti = Bobby Small Eyes
Salvatore Mangiamelli = Sally Apple Eater
Anthony Antico = Old Anthony
Joseph Barone = Joe the Baron
Frank Campanello = Frankie Bell
Michael Coppola = Mikey Flat Cap
Giuiseppe La Bruno = Joe Brown
Mario LaFiore = Mario the Flower
Vincent Gigante = Vinny the Giant
Rudolph Santobello = Rudy Beautiful Saint
Paul Bevacqua = Paulie Drink Water
Michael LaRosa = Mike the Rose
Giuseppe Magliocco = Joe Bad Eyes


........there are so many Italian surnames that translate into interesting words. Remember that dating back to antiquity, most people had only 1 name. And it was typically related to what they looked like, their vocation, or the hometown.

Very interesting thread you started Furio. Good man.

Thanks NYMafia. But anyway antico is ancient and campanello is doorbell for the others,good translation.

Technically you are correct of course. Frank Campanello was actually nicknamed Frankie Bell by his underworld associates

Isn't Gotti derived from the Goths (who occupied parts of Italy in the Middle ages)?

Doesn't Rizzuto also mean erect or something like that

correct

https://www.cognomix.it/origine-cognome/rizzuto.php

The surname should derive from nicknames that indicated that the progenitor had curly hair.
Traces of these surnames are found in Mazzo (SO) in the second half of 1500 with a certain Giovannino Rizzettus.

https://www.cognomix.it/origine-cognome/gotti.php

For cognomix there are 2 possibilities:

1) Yes the surnames derives from the Goths
2) the surname dervies from dialect word gotto (glass)

Albert "Albie" Vena= vein
Bruno Caruso= a sicilian word forkid
Michael "Mags" Magnafichi=figseater
John "Pudgy" Matassa=Skein
Robert "Gabeet" Bellavia= nice street

Steve Cannarozzo= ucannaruzzu is a sicilian word for throat
Charles J. Cipolla= onion

Montreal

Alessandro Sucapane= breadsucker

Santo Trafficante = Saint Trafficker

A quite contradictory name imo

Saint Trafficker could be a good nickname for the vatican chief of IOR (the vatican bank).

Angelo Bruno=Dark Angel