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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : possibly, as Caracausi suggests, a topographic name for someone who lived by a twisting road, track, or watercourse, from volti, plural of volta, in the sense ‘curve’, ‘bend’; li is the plural definite article.

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