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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : nickname from a Sicilian modification of falso ‘false’, ‘untrue’, ‘erroneous’, also ‘untruth’, ‘falsehood’.
  • Southern Italian : from a short form of the personal name Bonifasio (see Bonifacio).

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