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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : reduced form of the Sicilian family name Scopello, a habitational name from any of various places named with this word, for example in Trapani, from Latin scopellus, from Greek skopelos ‘watch tower’. The Greek word also means ‘reef’ and ‘obstacle’. Skopelos is the name of an island in the Aegean.

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