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Updated August 19, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : in some cases from Bassus, a family name of the Republican period, from Latin bassus ‘thickset’, i.e. wide as opposed to tall; in others from a medieval nickname Basso meaning ‘short’, ‘low’, a derivative of bassus.
  • Catalan : variant of Besso.

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