Hey just found out my Italian surname is Fornaio!?

Question

Anyone know of any meanings?

Answer 1

This name is very rare on Ancestry.com.  Found an immigrant from Emna, Italy.  No meaning found, though.

Answer 2

its the name of a restaurant in Palo Alto, Ca and New York. thats all I know.

Answer 3

It means that your ancestor who adopted the name was a baker of bread. Nothing glamorous, but definitely someone of good standing in the community.

Answer 4

"fornaio" = baker

Answer 5

Fornaio means "baker"; the difference with "panettiere" (like Hayden last name), is "panettiere" come from "pane", bread, fornaio from "forno", oven.

Strictly said, a fornaio cook everything, while a panettiere only bread, but in fact today they're synonym.