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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese : nickname from southern Italian curtu, Spanish and Portuguese curto ‘short’ (Latin curtus ‘curtailed’, ‘broken off’).
  • Catalan (Curtó) : from a diminutive of Curt.

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