Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent yew tree, Italian tasso (Latin taxus, genitive taxi).
- Italian : from a Germanic personal name derived from the obscure element tāt, possibly akin to Old High German tāt ‘deed’. Compare English Tate.
- nickname for a person thought to resemble a badger, for example in his nocturnal habits, from Italian tasso ‘badger’ (Late Latin taxo, genitive taxonis, of Germanic origin).
- Greek (Tassos) : from a reduced form of the personal name Anastasios (see Anastas) or a patronymic derived from it, such as Anastasopoulos.