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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname from torto ‘twisted’, ‘tortured’, ‘sullen’ or Sicilian tortu ‘bad’, ‘wicked’ (but also in castru tortu ‘castrated ram’), from Latin tortus, past participle of torquere ‘to turn or twist’.

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