What is my heritage lastname descent

Question

I have to do a project for school on my family descent and my last name or its heritage my parents or out of town for two weeks and I wont be able to get ahold of them in time to ask What kind of last name does DeLuca's sound like or does anybody know. it will be really helpfull?

Answer 1

It is a shame that school teachers are telling you that your heritage is the same as that of your last name.  There are MANY reasons families end up with the name that have and often it has nothing to do with the origins of that name.  For example, MANY African Americans today carry around family names that were given to their slave ancestors by the slave owner's......usually that white slave owner's last name.  However, as we all know, that just because they have a European name does not mean that suddenly they have European heritage.

Answer 2

Immigration records show that most come from Italy.

Ceprano Frosinone, Italy

Ceprano Rome, Italy

San Vito, Italy

Montalto Uffugo, Italy

Answer 3

i would guess it is of spanish or french descent, just because of the De- which means "of."  

Answer 4

De Luca is an Italian family name, still  very common in the whole Italy (I believe one of the first 20 family names) with some  specific majority in the areas of Rome, Catanzaro (in Calabria region), and Neaples. Another cluster is in northern Piedmont region around the towns of Vercelli and Turin

It is most probably a patronymic , being "de" a particle specifying origin (you can translate as "from" and in this case assumes the meaning of son of or descendant of) and Luca (Luke), the family establisher, whose name  derived from the Greek name  Loukas (the greek version of the name of one of the evangelists ,Luke): this is the most accredited etymology for the Calabria's De Luca (that region was an ancient Greek colony).

Another etymology, for Rome' Neaples' and Sardinians De Luca come from the ancient Rome family name Lucius ( De Lucio can be translated as "from Lucius", and c was probably read k, thus  further transformation in De Luko, De Luka, De Luca)

Finally the Northern Italian De Luca (mmainly in Piedmont near Vercelli and Turin) etymology comes from Gens Lusia a Celtic population conquered then liberated (Liberti) from Romans during their expansions to north, with some ethnic contact with southern France and Northern Spain (so De Luca means someone coming from the Lusian ethnic tribe)

Unluckily I cannot access to recent out of Italy information :but many here will be more helpful