Caruso Family History
- Caruso Name Meaning
- Italian: nickname from caruso ‘close-cropped’ (Latin cariosus ‘decayed’, also ‘smooth’, ‘bald’). This word was also used in the more general sense ‘boy’, ‘lad’, since in the Middle Ages young men of fashion sometimes wore their hair much shorter than was the prevailing style. In the Girgenti area of Sicily the term was a metonymic occupational name for a worker in the sulfur pits, since such workers were required to wear their hair short.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 214,544 Historical Documents with Caruso on Ancestry
- 104,339 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 33,973 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,961 Military Records
- 21,743 Immigration Records
- 40,528 Member Trees
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Number of Caruso families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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