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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a late medieval personal name Guzzo, a reduced pet form of various personal names, for example Arriguzzo, from Arrigo (see Henry), and Uguzzo, from Ugo (see Hugh).
  • Italian : in the south, from the Sicilian and Calabrian dialect word guzzu ‘(aggressive) small dog’, ‘puppy’, applied as a nickname.

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