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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Swiss Italian (Ticino) : nickname for a person with some peculiarity of the legs or gait, from a diminutive of gamba ‘leg’ (see Gamba). This name is also well established in Argentina and Uruguay.

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