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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name Ottaviano (Latin Octavianus, meaning ‘of the gens Octavia’, a name derived from octavus ‘eight’).
  • Italian : habitational name from Ottaviano in the province of Naples, called Ottaiano until 1933.

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