 The name should technically be spelled "Kalonymos," as Kalonymus ben Kalonymus and Immanuel the Roman both rhyme it with words ending in "-mos".The name, which occurs in Greece, Italy, and Provence, is of Greek origin; Kalonymos () means "good name" and Wolf pointed that it is a translation of the Hebrew "Shem-Tov"; Zunz, that it represented the Latin "Cleonymus".Traces of the family in Italy may be found as early as the second half of the eighth century.