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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Italian fusco ‘dark’ (Latin fuscus); in some cases it may be from a medieval personal name derived from the Roman family name Fuscus, originally of the same meaning.

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