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RAPETTI | RAPETTO | REPETTI | REPETTO

Rapetti is specific to northwestern Italy, could have three strains, in the Genoese and Alexandrian the main and in Turin and Milan Lodigiano the other two, Rapetto is typical of the area that includes the Savona especially, the Alexandrian and the Genoese, Repetti is typical of the area that includes the Genoese, the Alexandrian and the Piacentino, the Repetto is typical of Genoese and Alexandrian, with a secondary strain of Genoese origin in Carloforte (CA), may derive from nicknames associated with the word rapa. Additions provided by Vittorio Ghio the surname Rapetti or Repetto (rat petit French, Mickey Mouse) should correspond to people driven from Spain at the time of the expulsion of the Moors and the Jews, long Fermatasi then

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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