SURNAMES IN ITALY

Surname Trucco

Origin and meaning

According to the sources cited below, Trucco is a surname of Piedmontese and Ligurian origin, formed from place names. E. De Felice identifies the relevant toponyms as Trucco, in the province of Imperia; Trucco di Miola, in the province of Turin; and Trucchi, in the area of Cuneo, noting that the surname is particularly frequent in Genoa. It is similarly recorded as denoting a person originating from a locality of this name in northern Italy.

💡 The surname Trucco also appears as altered form of the surname Gualtiero in other studies consulted in this project.

Variants

Geographic distribution: Piedmont and Liguria; Trucco very frequent in Genoa

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Drawing on 2 authors, this entry presents the different hypotheses about the origin of the surname, avoiding a single oversimplified explanation.

Sources

This entry of the Italian Surname Meanings dictionary is based on the following specialized onomastic sources:

  • De Felice, E. (1978). Dizionario dei cognomi italiani. Milano: Mondadori.
  • Research conducted by Surnames in Italy, the English-language project of Ancestros Italianos, based on the bibliography cited in the references.