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alto Name Meaning and History

  1. Respelling of Finnish Aalto.
  2. Portuguese: nickname for a big man, from alto ‘tall’, ‘big’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The alto name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the alto family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of alto Families in the US in 1920
Number of alto families
 18-33
 7-17		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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