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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : diminutive of Figlia, from ‘daughter’, ‘girl’, Latin filia, perhaps used to distinguish a mother and daughter bearing the same given name, or from a female short form of a compound name formed with the element -figlio (‘son’, ‘boy’), such as Bonfiglio.

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