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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : occupational or status name from massaro, which in northern Italy denoted a tenant farmer or share cropper and in central and southern Italy could also denote an agent or steward of a rural estate, from medieval Latin massarius, a derivative of massa ‘farm’, ‘estate’. Compare Massa 1.

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