Frequency: (503)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: 1. from a late medieval personal name Guzzo, a reduced pet form of various personal names, for example Arriguzzo, from Arrigo (see Henry), and Uguzzo, from Ugo (see Hugh). 2. in the south, from the Sicilian and Calabrian dialect word guzzu ‘(aggressive) small dog’, ‘puppy’, applied as a nickname.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 14%. Rocco (3), Angelo (2), Salvatore (2), Agostino, Carmelina, Domenic, Gildo, Giorgio, Nunzio, Santo, Saverio.
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