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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a nickname from Old Italian ciotto ‘lame’.
  • Italian : from the personal name Ciotto, a short form of a personal name formed with the hypocoristic suffix -ciotto, such as Feliciotto, Franciotto, or Petrucciotto.

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