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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from pellegrino ‘pilgrim’, hence a nickname for a person who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land or to a famous holy site elsewhere, such as Santiago de Compostella or Rome, or from the personal name Pellegrino, from the same word. See also Pilgrim.

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