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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name from any of various places named Somma, notably Somma Vesuviana in Naples province, from somma, sommo ‘high point’, ‘place above’.
  • Italian : in some instances possibly from a female personal name, Somma.

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