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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (mainly southern) : from a medieval personal name, which was probably brought to Sicily from northern France by the Normans. It corresponds to French Altier, Autier, composed of Germanic ald ‘old’, ‘wise’ + hari ‘army’.

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