Ciano Family Crest and Last Name Background

Your Ciano ancestor may well appear as Ciani in earlier records. The family name meaning is “Little Luciano”, the same as for Ciani.

Family crest and blazon

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

How the spelling arose

The change of ending between Ciani and Ciano reflects the Italian habit of naming a family in the plural or the singular.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Ciano surname had 831 bearers. French birth records list 165 children named Ciano between 1891 and 2000. Want more than a summary? See the Ciano family name pack.