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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : probably a habitational name from any of various places so named, in particular Tocco Caudio in Benevento province or Tocco da Casauria in Pescara.
  • Italian : alternatively, it could be a nickname from tocco, an adjective meaning ‘eccentric’, or from the noun tocco meaning ‘(judge’s) cap’, or, in Old Italian, ‘piece’, ‘part’.
  • Italian : from a variant of the personal name Toccio (see Tocci).

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