Oppedisano
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Oppedisano
Frequency: (210)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: habitational name for someone from Oppido Mamertino in Reggio Calabria, so named from Latin oppidum ‘fortified place’, ‘stronghold’. The original settlement was destroyed by an earthquake in 1783; it was rebuilt on a site further south.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 31%. Rocco (6), Salvatore (4), Carmelo (2), Cosimo (2), Vincenzo (2), Angelo, Antonio, Carlo, Filippo, Pierina, Pietro, Sal.
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