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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : possibly a metonymic occupational name for an armorer, from corazza ‘cuirass’, or alternatively a nickname from the Calabrian dialect word corazzu ‘generous man’, probably a derivative of dialect core ‘heart’ (standard Italian cuore).

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