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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname from Old Italian segreto ‘confidant’ (from Latin secretum literally ‘hidden place’, hence ‘personal business’, ‘secret’).
  • Italian : occupational name from medieval Greek ek sekretōn, literally ‘from the hidden place’, i.e. ‘financial administrator’, likewise a derivative of Latin secretum.

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