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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : etymology uncertain; possibly from an unexplained nickname from quaranta ‘forty’, or alternatively from a personal name Quaranta, as supported by the place name Santa Quaranta.
  • French (Provence) : habitational name from Quarante near Capestang in Hérault.

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