Carbonelli Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Some records give Carbone; others give Carbonelli. Both point to the same Italian family name. The family name meaning is “Charcoal”, the same as for Carbone.

• The same family of names includes Carboni and Carbonaro.
• Carbonelli adds -lli to the root of Carbone, a common way of forming related surnames.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Arms associated with the name

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