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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : reduced form of Raguseo, a habitational name for someone from Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in Croatia. In many regions of Italy raguseo could also mean ‘bad boy’, or ‘rough person’, or ‘stingy’, and the surname may have arisen from a nickname from any of these senses.

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