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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the mouth, Sicilian mussu, Italian muso (from Late Latin musum).
  • Northern Italian : from the personal name Musso, a northern form of Giacomo (see James).

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