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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : topographic name from rotta ‘break’, ‘breach’, probably denoting a pass through a range of mountains.
  • Italian : from the vocabulary word rotta ‘course (of a ship)’, hence an occupational nickname for a steersman. Compare Greek Rota.

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