Family name origins & meanings
- Southern Italian (Sicily) : of uncertain origin; most probably a variant of Catalfano, a habitational name from a place called Catalfàno, named with Arabic qal‛at ‘citadel’ + perhaps ̣halfān ‘two oaths’.
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