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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name Lettiere, a derivative of Eleuterio, from Greek eleutheros ‘free’.
  • Italian : alternatively, from the Sicilian personal names Letterio (male) and Letteria (female), given in honor of the Madonna della Lettara, patron saint of Messina.

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