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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : possibly from medieval Latin quarta, a land measurement (from which the place name and family name Quartana is derived), or else a disimilated form of Quartararo, an occupational name for a maker or seller of jugs and bowls, which is particularly common in southern Sicily.

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