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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname from a diminutive of travaglio ‘anguish’, ‘worry’, ‘distress’.
  • Italian : a derivative of Sicilian travagghia ‘twitch’ (a device for restraining a restive horse while it is being shod).

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