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alto Name Meaning and History

  1. Respelling of Finnish Aalto.
  2. Portuguese: nickname for a big man, from alto ‘tall’, ‘big’.

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alto Family Facts

Distribution of alto Families in the US in 1920
Number of alto families
 18-33
 7-17
 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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