Bongiovi Family History
Bongiovi Name Meaning
Italian (Sicily; Bongiovì): nickname from belgioìno belgiuì ‘kind of balsam’ (from the Arabic lubān ǧāwī ‘Java's incense’) probably a metonymic occupational name for a chemist with substitution of bel(lo) ‘beatiful’ with b(u)on(o) ‘good’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022