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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : possibly from an augmentative of the personal name Tiro, from Calabrian tiru denoting a type of snake, but more likely a habitational name for someone from Thiron in France (recorded c.1120 as Tyronium), or a topographic name from tirone ‘round hill’.

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