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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a derivative of cero ‘curl’, regional variant of cirro (from Latin cirrus ‘lock’, ‘curl’, ‘ringlet’), and so a nickname for someone with curly hair, or alternatively a nickname from Late Latin cerutus ‘hot-headed’, ‘strange’, ‘freakish’.

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