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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Italian : A town; a sweet, fortified wine

Family name origins & meanings

  • Sicilian and southern Italian : habitational name from Marsala on the west coast of Sicily, in Trapani province, so named from Arabic marsā ‛Alī ‘port of Ali’.

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