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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : of uncertain derivation; possibly, as Caracausi suggests, from rallo ‘pullet’, ‘woodcock’, ‘moorhen’, or, less likely from Rallo, a district of Tassullo in Trento province.

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