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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : diminutive of Rampa, a nickname from Sicilian rampa ‘claw’, ‘nail’.
  • Italian : possibly from Salerno dialect rampinu ‘grappling hook’ (for retrieving a bucket from a well).

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