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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : occupational name for a maker or seller of bows, arcaro.
  • Italian : from arcaro, from Latin arcarius ‘treasurer’, an agent noun from arca ‘chest’, ‘coffer’; hence a status name for the treasurer of a city, guild, or other institution.

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