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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Jewish (from Italy) : ethnic name denoting someone of German origin, from Italian tedesco ‘German’, Old High German diutisc (see Deutsch). As a Jewish name, it was given to or taken by Ashkenazic Jews in Italy.

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