Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : from cervello ‘brain(s)’, a nickname for a clever or, ironically, for a hare-brained person.
- Italian : from a diminutive of cervo ‘deer’, a nickname for someone who was fleet of foot.
- Italian : from southern Italian cervello, cevrello ‘(goat) kid’.
- Italian : from a diminutive of the personal name Acerbo (Latin Acerbus meaning ‘sour’, ‘tart’), with loss of the first syllable.