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Updated May 26, 2021

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : in southern Italy, a habitational name from any of various places named with this word, in particular Pomigliano d’Arco in Naples province.
  • Italian : elsewhere, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a bowman or a maker of bows, from arco ‘bow’ (from Latin arcus).

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