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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : metonymic occupational name for a tinker or maker of large cooking pots, from a diminutive of caldara ‘cauldron’, or, in Sicily, for a bricklayer or mason, from the same word in the sense ‘bricklayer’s bucket’.

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