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piano Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived on a plain or plateau, Italian piano (Latin planum, from the adjective planus ‘flat’, ‘level’).
  2. nickname from the adjective piano in the sense ‘unassuming’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of piano Families in the US in 1920
Number of piano families
 13-23
 5-12
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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