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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : variant of Garufo, which is from Arabic, from, amongst other possibilities, qarūf ‘hard’, ‘cruel’, ‛arūf ‘constant’, ‘persevering’, or ‛arūf(ah) ‘one who knows’.

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