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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : according to Caracausi, a reduced variant of Gurgo, a topographic name with a variety of meanings, including ‘vortex’, ‘whirlpool’, ‘mill race’, ‘ditch where flax was put to soak’, ‘depression in which water collects’.

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