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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : nickname from allocco ‘dunce’, ‘fool’ (feminine allocca). This word is of obscure origin; it may be from Arabic alwaq (feminine lawqa, dialectally lōqa), which supposedly means ‘foolish’, ‘crazy’. Compare Spanish loco ‘crazy’. In Egyptian Arabic the word means ‘having a speech defect in pronouncing the letter r’.

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