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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : probably a habitational name from Ciolino, an area of Resuttano, in Caltanisetta province, Sicily.
  • Italian : from a diminutive of the medieval Tuscan personal name Ciolo, itself probably a diminutive of a personal name ending with -cio, with loss of the preceding syllable or syllables.

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