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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a derivative of bosco ‘forest’, hence a topographic name for someone living in or near a forest, an occupational name for someone who worked in one, for example a woodcutter, or a nickname for a rough or uncouth person.

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