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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from an augmentative of Maglio, or a habitational name from a place in Turin, named with the same word.
  • Italian : alternatively, perhaps from maglione ‘castrated bull’, ‘steer’, a derivative of magliare ‘to hit with a hammer’, ‘to castrate’.

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