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Carusi has a stock in the Massese, one between Pisa, Florence and Arezzo, but the main nucleus is in Abruzzo and in the near Roman, Carusillo is specific of the Foggia area, of Lucera, Volturara Appula and Foggia, Caruso is a very widespread surname throughout Italy also if we can assume a predominantly Sicilian origin. Their origin is, directly or through a dialectal hypocoristic form, from the word, first dialectal and then diffused in almost all the nation, caruso (boy, boy). additions provided by Fabio Picolli the Carusos descend from the knight Pier Fortugno who in 1026 conquered the city of Nocera dei Pagani disguising himself as Saracen and shaving his head, unfortunately he lost his life. Since then he was remembered as the Cavalier Caruso, that is, shaved. The Carusos branched out throughout Italy giving rise to various branches. to it perhaps the Carusio and the Carusi are reunited. One of the feuds of this family was Spaccaforno (Sicily). hypotheses provided by Stefano Ferrazzi On the origin of this surname, in reality, at least three different hypotheses converge which, added together, justify the very high frequency of Caruso families in our country (even outside of southern Italy ). Starting with the first interpretation, normally this surname is traced back to the term caruso, which literally means boy, but at one time it was also used to indicate a young farm laborer or, in any case, a young worker (in some areas of Sicily, for example, they were called carusi the workers at the sulfur mines): the origin of the word, in fact, is to be found either in the Latin cariosus, with the literal meaning of cariato, tarlato and, figuratively speaking, shaved, with sparse hair, or in the Greek kara, that is head or, more properly, shaved head; this etymology, which approaches the term caruso to the northern toso (from the Latin tonsus, that is sheared), is due to an ancient custom according to which young people had to wear very short hair, in order to better distinguish themselves from adults. Moving on to the second hypothesis (already mentioned by Mr. Picolli), it must be said that some Caruso families seem to come from an ancient lineage that has as its progenitor the knight Pier Fortugno, better known today with the name of Cavalier Caruso: to be precise, it is not necessarily of a relationship of blood with the Caruso family, but also of professional or other types of relationships with that family. Just out of curiosity, it seems that the same opera singer Enrico Caruso (born in Naples in 1873 and died there in 1921) descends from this family stock and, indeed, it was he who, at the beginning of the 1900s, commissioned the publisher Antonio Vallardi of Milan to carry out a heraldic research on his family, from which precisely these origins resulted (see also the site http://www.museocaruso.it/mvc_gallerie/galleria1/foto_002.htm). As for the third and last hypothesis (perhaps the one that best justifies the wide spread of Caruso families in our country), in several cases this surname should derive from the medieval name Caruso, to be understood in one of the meanings listed above, although more likely in that of young, boy: in the same way as the names Fante, Ragazzo, Toso, etc. (also fallen into disuse), Caruso seems to be born first as a nickname and over time to be adopted as a personal name (on the model of the Latin surnames, many of which were later named).
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