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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from fracasso ‘din’, ‘row’, ‘uproar’, ‘ruin’, probably applied as a nickname for a rowdy person. However, the word is also used to refer to derelict buildings; it may be a topographic name from this sense.

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