What nationality is the surname Marasco?

Question

What nationality is the surname Marasco?

Answer 1

www.ancestry.com--Marasco Name Meaning and History

Southern Italian: topographic name from the Salentine dialect word "marascu" ‘mullein’ (Latin verbascum).

www.familysearch.org has these varied spellings:

MAROWSKI; MARUSKA; MAROSKI ; MARISCO; MARASCA; & MAROSKEY.

     It is/was  found in Italy (Calabria, Napoli, Foggia, Province Of Catanzaro), USA (various states), Prussia, Bohemia, Germany,  Poland, El Salvador, Austria,  Argentina,and Brazil.

     The earliest listing I could find was DIANORA DOMENICA MARASCA--Christening: 28 JAN 1598 Venezia (Venice), Italy. An usual first name was Arcangelo.

Answer 2

From looking at

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...

(Click on "Exact spelling") it seems Italian. It also looks like some of those Italians went to Austria, some to Argentina, some to the USA.

So - if you get the urge to sing arias as you stir a little more garlic into the pasta, talk with your hands and appreciate fine tailoring, you are being true to your roots.

If you are blond, boil your vegetables until they are lifeless, shun red wine and think life means working from sunup to sundown, then reading the Lutheran Bible after supper, you were stolen by gypsies from a family of Swedes and sold to a childless Italian couple. Break free from your bio-heritage while you can! Embrace your adopted one!

No sense stopping at one stereotype.

If neither of these is true, the only way to find your heritage is to trace your family tree,

Answer 3

italian its sounds italian

Answer 4

This Italian surname of MARASCO was an occupational name for a marshall. The term was originally of Germanic origin.

Maraschino or Marasco is also a species of cherry.