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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name Lupo, in part a continuation of the Latin personal name Lupus ‘wolf’, and in part a medieval revival under the influence of Germanic personal names formed with wulf ‘wolf’. In some cases the surname may derive from a nickname for a violent, predatory person, from the vocabulary word lupo ‘wolf’.

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