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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname from cervo ‘stag’ (Latin cervus), given with reference to the presumed lustiness of the creature, or conversely to the horns, supposed to be a sign of a cuckold.
  • Italian : from the personal name Acerbo (see Cervelli), with loss of the first syllable.

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