The Todesco Family Name

The last name Todesco is a variant form of Tedesco, an Italian family name. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “German”.

• Todesco writes “o” in place of the “e” found in Tedesco, a typical scribal difference.
• Related forms: Tedeschi and Todisco.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

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