Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : from a pet form of Mari.
- Italian : from the medieval Greek surname Maroulles, Maroullos. This is either a metronymic from Maroulla, a pet form of Maria, or an occupational name for someone who grew and sold lettuces, modern Greek marouli ‘lettuce’, medieval Greek maroulion.
- Italian : The Byzantine humanist scholar Michael Maroullos (d. 1499) fled to Venice after the fall of Constantinople (1453) and ultimately settled in Florence, where he was an influential figure in the Italian Renaissance.