Maiorana
Maiorana (also Majorana) is a surname of Southern Italian origin, mostly used in Calabria and Sicily. It originates from a toponym maiurana, in turn from the Latin name of the marjoram herb.[1] The name in both spellings is still used in Italy; the Italian white pages as of 2018 reported 673 entries for Maiorana and 185 entries for Majorana.[2]
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The somewhat more widespread surname Maiorano (1082 entries[2]) is possibly a variant, but more likely a habitational name from Maiorano di Monte, a village in Dragoni municipality, Province of Caserta.[1]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Cristoforo Majorana (fl. 1480s), Neapolitan limner and painter
- Marcello Maiorana (died 1586), bishop of Acerra
- Quirino Majorana (1871–1957), Italian experimental physicist
- Ettore Majorana (1906–?; probably died after 1959), Italian theoretical physicist
- Giuliano Maiorana (born 1969), footballer
- Daniel Maiorana (born 1977), Swedish convicted criminal
- Mark Maiorana (born 1956), fpolitician
- Stefano Maiorano (born 1986), Italian football midfielder
References
- Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press (2013), p. 494.
- paginebianche.it
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