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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : a nickname for a squat, fat, or stubborn person, from Calabrian zumbu ‘lump’, from Calabrian Greek dzomba, tsoumba, from Medieval Greek gombos, itself in turn from Venetian gobo ‘hunchbacked’.

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