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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : occupational name for a young servant, from garzone ‘boy’, ‘lad’, ‘servant’, possibly a loanword from French garçon.
  • Italian : alternatively, it has been suggested that it could be from a derivative of garzo ‘head of a species of thistle used for teasing cloth’, presumably applied as a topographic or metonymic occupational name, or garza ‘heron’, or Calabrian and Sicilian garzu ‘sweetheart’, ‘lover’.

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