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Updated June 9, 2019

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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