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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : nickname for someone with a big or otherwise noticeable head, from medieval Greek koutra ‘head’, or, pronounced Cutrì, from Greek koutrias, the suffix denoting a personal attribute.
  • Southern Italian : Alternatively, it may be a descriptive nickname from medieval Greek koutroulas ‘maimed’.

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