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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : of uncertain etymology; it may be from the personal name Levatino, from levatino ‘Levantine’, or alternatively it could be a nickname from Sicilian livantinu ‘moody’, ‘capricious’, ‘frivolous’.

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