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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Naples and Puglia) : topographic name from ronco ‘cultivated land’, ‘terraced slope’, ‘hillside vineyard’, or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word, examples of which are found in Turin, Genoa, Milan, and Verona (Ronco); Bologna, Mantova, and Savona (Ronchi); Verona (Ronca).

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