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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • See Vargo.
  • This name is said to have been brought from Wales to America in about 1670 and established in CT. At this time, however, surnames were not generally in use in Wales. William Fargo (1818–81), who, with Henry Wells, founded the Wells Fargo express company in 1844, was a member of this family, born in New York.

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