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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : from the personal name Cayo, Spanish equivalent of Gaetano.
  • possibly also from the Castilianized form of Asturian-Leonese Cayu, a habitational name from either of two places in Asturies named El Cayu.

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