Family name origins & meanings
- Italian (mainly Calabrian and Sicilian) : from a short form of the personal name Bartolomeo (see Bartholomew), or (in the Greek-influenced south of Italy) from the personal name Tolomeo, representing Greek Ptolemaios.
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