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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname from a dialect variant of pazzo ‘mad’, ‘eccentric’.
  • Italian : from the Germanic personal name Matto, from Germanic Matha-.
  • Hungarian (Mattó) : variant of Mató, from a pet form of the personal name Máté, Hungarian form of Matthew.

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