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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from brocco ‘bud’, ‘shoot’, ‘sprout’, also ‘nail’, ‘stud’, ‘boss’ (from Latin broccus ‘having protruding teeth’), probably applied as a nickname or perhaps a metonymic occupational name.

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