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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : nickname from Southern Italian Greek kouddho, skouddho, from classical Greek dialect kolos ‘hornless’, a term used metaphorically to denote someone childless. The form Gulló, with the stress on the final syllable, may derive from Greek kyllos ‘bandy-legged’ or modern Greek koullos ‘mutilated’.

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