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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (Lo Curto) : nickname for a short man, from curto ‘short’, southern form of standard Italian corto (from Latin curtus ‘curtailed’, ‘truncated’, ‘cut short’, ‘broken off’), with the definite article lo.

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