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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese and Galician : variant spelling of Neto.
  • Italian : from a short pet form of a personal name ending in -ne, as for example Baronetto (from Barone), Leonetto (from Leone), or Simonetto (from Simone).

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