Family name origins & meanings
- Italian (Sicily) : occupational name from a diminutive of sciorta, sciurta ‘city guard’, ‘watchman’, ‘policeman’ (Arabic ̣shuṛtī).
- Italian (Sicily) : habitational name from Sortino in Siracusa.
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