I see what Dest was talking about before, nobody but an Italian/Sicilian would give a shit about the origin of DeBlasio. He took his Italian origin mom's name initially doubling it with his German father's.
Trump used to say he was Swedish to avoid his German roots.
Nobody cares, at least Bill actually is Italian through his mom.
"Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. on May 8, 1961. While he did not grow up in New York City, his parents drove down from their home in
Norwalk, Connecticut to
Manhattan's
Doctors Hospital for his birth.
[1][2] He is the third son of Maria Angela (
née de Blasio; 1917–2007) and Warren Wilhelm (1917–1979).
[3] He changed his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm in 1983 and finally to Bill de Blasio in 2001 to honor his maternal family.
[4][5] De Blasio has two older brothers, Steven and Donald.
[2] His mother was of
Italian heritage, and his father was of
German, English, French, and Scots-Irish ancestry.
[6][7][8] His paternal grandparents were Donald Wilhelm, of Ohio, and Nina (née Warren), of
Iowa.
[9][10] His maternal grandfather, Giovanni, was from
Sant'Agata de' Goti,
Benevento, and his grandmother, Anna (née Briganti), was from
Grassano,
Matera.
[11][12] His paternal uncle, Donald George Wilhelm Jr., worked for the
Central Intelligence Agency in Iran and secretly wrote the last Shah of Iran,
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's, memoir.
[13]
His mother, Maria de Blasio, attended
Smith College, served in the
Office of War Information during
World War II and authored
The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II (1988).
[14][15] His father, a
Yale University graduate, worked as a contributing editor at
Time Magazine and also served in World War II. In 1942, he enlisted in the
U.S. Army and was sent to the
Pacific War. During the 82-day
Battle of Okinawa, a grenade detonated below his left foot, and his leg was later amputated below the knee. After receiving a
Purple Heart, he married Maria in 1945, and became a budget analyst for the federal government. During the 1950s, at the height of the
Red Scare, both Maria and Warren were accused of having a "sympathetic interest in
Communism".
[16][1]
In 1966, the family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where de Blasio began kindergarten.
[17][18] Bill and his brother Donald were then raised by Maria and her extended family. Of his early childhood, de Blasio said, "my mother and father broke up very early on in the time I came along, and I was brought up by my mother's family—that's the bottom line—the de Blasio family."
[5] His father committed suicide while suffering from incurable
lung cancer when Bill was 18.
[19] In 1979, de Blasio graduated from
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he served in student government and was known to peers as "Senator Provolone".
[a][21] He received a
Bachelor of Arts from
New York University in metropolitan studies, a program in
urban studies, and a
Master of International Affairs from
Columbia University's
School of International and Public Affairs.
[22][23][24] He is a 1981
Harry S. Truman Scholar.
[25]
"