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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Calabrian and Sicilian) : from Calabrian tripodi, tripodu, Sicilian tripoddu, from medieval Greek tripodion ‘tripod’, ‘trivet’, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a cook or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of trivets.

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