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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Portuguese : possibly of Italian origin (see 2 below).
  • Italian : nickname from pupo ‘child’, ‘baby’, from Sicilian pupu, which can also mean ‘puppet’, ‘doll’, ‘vain person’.

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