Tancredini: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

If your family name is Tancredini, its origin lies with Tancredi, a long-established Italian surname. Its meaning, shared with Tancredi, is “Son of Tancredi”.

Tancredini carries the diminutive ending -ini, so it began as a ‘little’ or affectionate form of Tancredi. You may also find the name written Tancred and Tancredo.

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