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 Abandoned infants had surnames assigned to them by the foundling homes where they were abandoned and often a new surname may be assigned to the infant when placed with a wet nurse in a foster family. For more on this, see the article [[Italian_Infant_Abandonment|Italian Infant Abandonment]].
-== Surnames - nobility and wealthy land owners  ==
-Surnames were first used by the nobility and wealthy land owners. Later they were used by merchants and townspeople and eventually by the rural population. This process took between two and three centuries. In Italy the practice was mostly established by the 1400s.
 == Women’s Surnames  ==