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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (Currò) : from a reduced form (via Corrào, Currào) of the Germanic personal name Corrado, Italian equivalent of Konrad.
  • Southern Italian : possibly a derogatory nickname from medieval Greek korros ‘lazy’.
  • Portuguese and Galician : from any of numerous places in Portugal and Galicia so named, from curro ‘fold’, ‘pen’.

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