Bonanni: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Bonanni is best understood alongside Bonanno: both are Italian spellings of one family name. In origin, the name means “Good year”.

• Bonanni and Bonanno differ only in the final vowel; Italian surnames often appear in both a singular and a plural form.
• In the 2010 US Census, 705 Americans gave Bonanni as their last name (rank 32,599). INSEE counts 291 people born in France with the Bonanni surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1961–1970. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Bonanno and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Bonanni report, with a museum-style coat of arms.