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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian : nickname for a mild, inoffensive person, from manso ‘tame’, ‘docile’ (Late Latin mansus, classical Latin mansuetus ‘tamed’, literally ‘accustomed to the hand’).

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