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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (mainly Calabrian and Sicilian) : from a short form of the personal name Bartolomeo (see Bartholomew), or (in the Greek-influenced south of Italy) from the personal name Tolomeo, representing Greek Ptolemaios.

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