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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name Erasmo (from GreekErasmos, a derivative of erān ‘to love’). St. Erasmos (died 303) was a bishop of Formia in Campania, who was martyred under Diocletian. Compare Elmo.

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