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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name for someone from Oppido Mamertino in Reggio Calabria, so named from Latin oppidum ‘fortified place’, ‘stronghold’. The original settlement was destroyed by an earthquake in 1783; it was rebuilt on a site further south.

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