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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Jewish (from Italy) : habitational name from the Sicilian city of Palermo, the Greek name of which is Panormos, from pan ‘all’ + ormos ‘gulf’, ‘bay’, probably in the sense ‘wide gulf’, but possibly ‘well-protected bay’.

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