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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : occupational name from medieval Latin calamarius ‘scribe’, ‘copyist’ (from Latin calamus ‘reed’).
  • Italian : habitational name from Calamaro in Sicily, named with medieval Latin calamarium ‘writing stand’, probably denoting a place rich in reeds.

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