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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : ethnic name for someone from Scotland or Ireland, from medieval Italian scot(t)o ‘Scot’.
  • Italian : from a reduced form of personal names such as Marescotto, a pet form of Maresco, or Francescotto, a pet form of Francesco.

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