Surname Spotlight: Marchini

Arms linked to Marchetti and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Marchini and Marchetti are two spellings with one history. In origin, the name means “Of little Marco”.

Records show Marchini as one of the forms Marchetti took over time. Other spellings include De Marchi, Marchetta and Marchetto. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Marchini with 515 bearers, at rank 42,163. Between 1891 and 2000, 589 babies born in France were registered as Marchini, with the most births in 1961–1970. There were 25 such births in the 1890s and 49 in the 1990s.

Get the complete Marchini report, with a museum-style coat of arms.