Frequency: (103)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southern Italian: according to Caracausi, this is from Arabic lawz ‘almond tree’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 16%. Mario (2), Bernardino, Gabriela, Renato, Rico.
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