Tancredi

Italian from German

"thoughtful counsel"

Tancredi Origin and Meaning

Variation of Tancredo

Famous People Named Tancredi

• Tancredi "Tank" Palamara Italian rock guitarist
• Tancredi Pasero Italian operatic bass

The name Tancredi in Pop Culture

• Tancredi in 'La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered)' by Torquato Tasso
• Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda musical work by Claudio Monteverdi
• Tancredi opera by Gioachino Rossini (1813)
• Frank and Sara Tancredi characters on TV's Prison Break
• Tancredi Falconieri a character in The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• Tancred or Tankred is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. Tankrad comes from thank (thought) and ,rad (counsel), meaning "well,thought advice". It was used in the High Middle Ages mainly by the Normans and especially associated with the Hauteville family in Italy. It is rare today as a first name, but still common as a Norman surname: Tanqueray. Its Italian form is Tancredi and in Latin it is Tancredus. Its Italian patronymic is also Tancredi.