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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : possibly from a short form of the personal name Angelo.
  • Italian : from gelo ‘frost’, possibly applied to someone with a frosty temperament or as a topographic name for someone who lived in a place prone to frost.
  • Italian : unexplained.

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