Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized spelling of Italian (Sicily) Sciortino, a habitational name from Sortino in Siracusa, or from a diminutive of Sicilian sciorta, sciurta ‘watchman’, ‘city guard’ (a word of Arabic origin).
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