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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from bracco ‘hunting dog’, ‘bloodhound’ (from Old High German brakko via French brac), probably a nickname for someone thought to resemble a hunting dog.
  • Italian : in southern Italy, most likely a nickname from Calabrian braccu ‘small and chubby’.
  • Italian : possibly a habitational name from a place named Bracco, for example in Liguria province.

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