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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : occupational name for a dyer, from the dialect word sgarlatu ‘scarlet’, a variant of Scarlata. There is also a place of this name, but the place name is probably derived from the surname rather than vice versa.

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