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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : topographic name from murgia ‘rock’.
  • Italian (Sardinian) : nickname from Sardinian murgia ‘brine’ or murcia ‘marc (of olives)’, ‘dregs’ (compare Morga).
  • Basque : habitational name from either of the two towns called Murgia, in Araba and Gipuzkoa provinces, Basque Country.

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