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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : patronymic or plural form of the nickname Grillo.
  • Italian : possibly a reduced form of the compound name Mazzagrilli, meaning ‘kill the crickets’, i.e. an ironic nickname for a idler.

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