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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : apparently a regional name from Gargano, an extensive area of Apulia, but more likely from a typically Sicilian variant of the personal name Galgano, itself a variant of Galvano, Italian equivalent of Gawain (see Galvin).

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