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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (especially frequent in Tuscany) : from the Germanic personal name Tozo (a pet form of a personal name based on the root dod-).
  • Italian (especially frequent in Tuscany) : from the personal name Tozzo, a reduced form of Albertozzo, Robertozzo, or other pet names with the diminutive suffix -ozzo.
  • Italian (especially frequent in Tuscany) : nickname from tozzo ‘squat’, ‘dumpy’.

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