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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Greek (Terezis) : metronymic from the female personal name Teresa, a derivative of Greek Thēresia ‘hunting’, originally a name associated with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis.
  • Greek (Terezis) : variant of Terzis (see Terzi).

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