Meaning of my italian last name?

its Maietta





im all italian and my dad was born in Italy, but nobody knows what it means. any help?

Meaning of my italian last name?
This is all www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,


Maietta


Southern Italian: from a feminine pet form of Maio.


hope this helps.
Reply:this is all I found so far.
Reply:i would google family crests and you should find out there what you are looking for. i used 4crest.com
Reply:Rootsweb(free site) has 137 entries in family trees for Maietta. Just pull up the site and put Maietta in the World Connect block. Once you have the trees if you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will give you the name and email address of the submitters.





Just don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters, that is no guarantee it is correct.


A lot of people copy without verifying.





See the link below from the most prestigious genelaogical organization in the U. S., The National Genealogical Society.





http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...
Reply:that was one of my teacher's name Ms. Maietta but anyways couldn't find it looked in google but it didn't match any results. Sorry =(
Reply:Maietta


Southern Italian: from a feminine pet form of Maio





Maio


Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese: from a nickname or personal name based on the word for the month of May, Latin Maius (see May 1).





I hope that helps! :)