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Updated August 19, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : surname commonly denoting a foundling, meaning literally ‘exposed’ (Latin expositus, past participle of exponere ‘to place outside’). At the present day this is the commonest surname in Naples and fourth in Italy as a whole.

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