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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicilian and Calabrian) : nickname for a left-handed or maladroit person, Sicilian mancusu (from Latin mancosus, a derivative of mancus ‘one-armed’, ‘defective’, ‘maimed’).

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