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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a dialect word, cascio ‘cheese’ (Italian cacio), with the definite article lo, presumably a metonymic occupational nickname for a maker or seller of cheese.
  • Southern Italian : according to some sources, from a possible Sicilian form of Lo Castro.

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