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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : occupational nickname for a ferryman or boatman, from the phrase passa l’aqua ‘(one who) crosses the water’. Compare Passafiume.
  • Italian : perhaps also a habitational name from Passalacqua, a place near Alessandria.

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