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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name Salvo (‘safe’).
  • Catalan (Salvó) : possibly from a personal name, a pet form of the Latin personal name Salvus.
  • Spanish and Portuguese : possibly a nickname from salvo ‘saved’.

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