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Matti would seem Lombard, while Matto could be from Vercelli. These surnames should probably derive from the Germanic name Matto, or even from a mad nickname like the one used in this paper of 1520: "..Item examinatus super super secundo capitulo dixit if vidisse Iacobum alias el Matto coluisse quedam petia terrarum infra dictos confines et de terraticho respondisse magone videlicet durans bellum pisanum per annos 10 vel plus. .. ". additions provided by Daniele Zaia a nucleus of families with this surname exists between the municipalities of Moncucco Torinese and Moriondo Torinese. The etymology does not seem to have anything to do with the identical entry in Sardinia, but according to the inhabitants, it derives from the Piedmontese voice "mat", in the sense that in Piedmontese it has a semantic extension different from Italian, closer to "mattacchione" term.
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