English translation/equivalent: Basso

Origin: Derived from Latin surname Bassus and from the Medieval Latin bassus meaning "fat" and later "small of stature, stocky, thickset."

Name Day/Onomastico: February 14—in honor of St. Basso, martyred in Alessandria.

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