Melfi

English Etymology Borrowed from en it Melfi. Proper noun s en Italian. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Melfi is the 24186th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1039 individuals. Melfi is most common among White (94.9%) individuals. Further reading Italian it: Etymology Said to be related to the name of the small nearby river en Melpes, en Melphes, mentioned by Pliny. According to De Giovanni this name is from a Mediterranean (possibly it itc -, like the Oenotrians) it qfa-sub - und *melf, und *melp, of uncertain meaning, but compare la Melpis and la Melpum. Pronunciation mèlfi Proper noun f it town/and/municipality p:pref/Potenza r/Basilicata c/Italy Derived terms it melfitano Proper noun mfbysense it place names References Giacinto de' Sivo, Storia delle Due Sicilie, dal 1847 al 1861, Oxford University Press, 1864. Alessio-De Giovanni: Alessio, G., De Giovanni, M., Apulia et Calabria nel quadro della toponomastica mediterranea, Atti del VII congresso internazionale di scienze onomastiche, vol. 1, Firenze 1962, pp. 65-129. Further reading melfi