Where can i find information on the Italian Last Name of Regina?

My last name is Regina (Italian Heritage) and i am interested in getting a tattoo to represent that, possibly a symbol of some sort, that and i would be very interested in reading up on the history...i searched the internet but im having a hard time finding anything...thank you for your help in advance :)

Where can i find information on the Italian Last Name of Regina?
According to the GENS website, the highest concentration of people having "Regina" as family name in Italy is found in the cities of Grumo Appula (near Bari, Apulia), Alcamo and Marsala (near Trapani, Sicily).





You'd better ascertain first from which branch of the family are you descending from...
Reply:Family crests/ coats of arms are misleading... because they do not belong to a family at large..they belong to one specific person. The same is true of a "family history". One man named Regina could be mayor of a town, while his 2nd cousin of the same name was a murderer and got hung. A 3rd person with the same name, might not even be related.


The point is that the PERSON has the history..not the name itself. You can find info of the basic meaning.. but that is pretty broad and vague.


You WILL find places online that want to sell you a "family crest"..but I wanted to warn you as to why those sites are scams.


I just like to explain to persons WHY genealogy (finding your actual and explicit ancestors) is different from history of a name. This is why you have a hard time finding a history of a name. If you want to create a symbol of your own design.. that would be as valid as anything you find.. and maybe more so.
Reply:Here is the meaning. Maybe it will help





from regina 鈥榪ueen鈥?(Latin regina), applied either as a medieval female personal name alluding to the Virgin Mary, or, to a lesser extent as a nickname. Compare the masculine counterpart Re.





habitational name from any of various places named or named with Regina, in particular Regina in Lattarico (Cosenza province) and Regina Elena in San Gregorio d鈥橧ppona (Vibo Valentia province).
Reply:you can try http://www.privatesearchcenter.com/ for your search, maybe this would help..





Good Luck!
Reply:Since Regina is Latin for Queen, it stands to reasoning that it would be "Italian heritage". I have never heard of it being used for a surname, however.


Just check all of these:


You should start by asking all your living relatives about family history. Then, armed with that information, you can go to your public library and check to see if it has a genealogy department. Most do nowadays; also, don't forget to check at community colleges, universities, etc. Our public library has both www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com free for anyone to use (no library card required).


Another place to check out is any of the Mormon's Family History Centers. They allow people to search for their family history (and, NO, they don't try to convert you).


A third option is one of the following websites:


http://www.searchforancestors.com/...





http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...





www dot usgenweb dot com/





www dot census dot gov/





http://www.rootsweb.com/





www dot ukgenweb dot com/





www dot archives dot gov/





http://www.familysearch.org/





http://www.accessgenealogy.com/...





http://www.cyndislist.com/





www dot geni dot com/





Cyndi's has the most links to genealogy websites, whether ship's passenger lists, ancestors from Africa, ancestors from the Philippines, where ever and whatever.





Of course, you may be successful by googling: "john doe, born 1620, plimouth, massachusetts" as an example.





Good luck and have fun!





Check out this article on five great free genealogy websites:





www dot associatedcontent dot com/article...





Then there is the DNA test; if you decide you want to REALLY know where your ancestors came from opt for the DNA test. Besides all the mistakes that officials commonly make, from 10% to 20% of birth certificates list the father wrong; that is, mama was doing the hanky-panky and someone else was the REAL father. That won't show up on the internet or in books; it WILL show up in DNA.


I used www.familytreedna.com which works with the National Geographics Genotype Program.





Yep, I have Italian ancestry.
Reply:http://www.ancestry.co.uk/facts/Regina-f...


Regina Name Meaning and History


from regina 鈥榪ueen鈥?(Latin regina), applied either as a medieval female personal name alluding to the Virgin Mary, or, to a lesser extent as a nickname. Compare the masculine counterpart Re.


habitational name from any of various places named or named with Regina, in particular Regina in Lattarico (Cosenza province) and Regina Elena in San Gregorio d鈥橧ppona (Vibo Valentia province).





http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?na...


Recorded in a over fifty spellings including Rain, Raine, Rean and


Reen (British), Rene, Renne, Rainon, Renon, and Reyne (France),


Rein, Rehn, and Renn (Germany), Regina and Reina (Italy) and Reina


(Spanish %26amp; Portugese), this most interesting surname has to be


called "European". It has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may


derive from a shortened form of any of the various pre 7th century


Germanic male given names with the first element "ragin", meaning


counsel. These include Raymond and Reynold, meaning "counsel-


rule" from "ragin" and "wald", rule. Secondly it may derive from the


medieval female personal name Reine, itself Old French, but ultimately


from the Roman (Latin) "regina", meaning queen. Thirdly it may be of


Scottish locational origin from a place called Raine in the county of


Aberdeenshire. This is named after the Old Gaelic "rath chain",


meaning "the ford where the tax is paid". The surname is first recorded


in Scotland in the late 12th Century, whilst other early examples taken


at random throughout Europe include: Sir Thomas Rane of Irvine,


Scotland in 1260, Alan Reyne of Cambridgeshire, England, in the


same year, Counrad ze Rine of Basel, Switzerland in 1272, and


Johannes Rayne of Yorkshire in the Poll Tax rolls of 1379. The first


recorded spelling of the family name in any form anywhere in the world


is believed to be that of Robert de Rane, which was dated 1180, in


the "Episcopal Registers" of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This was during


the reign of King Malcolm 111 of Scotland, 1051 - 1093. Throughout


the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop"


often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.