Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : widespread throughout Italy, this name has various possible sources: as a habitational name from a place called Nasso (Latin Naxus) or from a reduced form of various personal names or nicknames formed with this suffix, as for example Satanasso, the name of the Devil, or Venetian Canasso.
- Greek : from the personal name Nassos, a pet form of Athanassios (see Athanas).