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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (Sicily) : probably from the Arabic personal name Abūr-ruwūs.
  • Southern Italian (Sicily) : perhaps also, in the form Vurroso, from Late Latin burlosus, related to Italian burla ‘joke’.

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