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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (mainly Naples) : either a habitational name from Avolio, a minor place in Sicily, or, more likely, from Sicilian avoliu ‘ivory’, Italian avorio, applied as a metonymic occupational name for an ivory worker or dealer, or possibly as a nickname for someone with pale skin.

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