In the Beginning
Internal Migration
The Surname Today
forebears.io estimates that, in 2025, there were 753 Baldacchinos, 1 misspelled Baldachino and 504 Ballacchinos in Italy. Baldacchino is the earliest form of the name and still the most prevalent form. Although it has now spread the length of the country, the great majority of Italian Baldacchinos still live in the Agrigento Province of Sicily where the name originated likely in the 12th to 13th centuries. In the Agrigento Province, the most popular residence today is Naro, with significant numbers also in Favara and the city of Agrigento. On the Italian mainland, the most popular residence is in the vicinity of Rome but the name can be found in most provinces stretching from Milan and Turin in the north to the Province of Calabria in the south.
Although it originated many centuries after the Baldacchino surname, the Ballacchino variant name that originated in Sicily has also spread to the mainland of Italy. On the mainland, it is concentrated in the northern industrial centres of Milan and Turin, but like the Baldacchino surname, most Ballacchinos still reside in the Agrigento Province of Sicily. Licata is still by far the most populous town for this name, the same town where the first occurrences we have found of this form of the name were in the church registers of the mid-1600s. Cognomix.it reports no one residing in Licata in 2025 with the surname spelling of Baldacchino.
