The Italian surname Girotto is derived from a nickname, which represented peculiar characteristics of someone who gained fame and passed that name on to his followers. descendants.
Originating in northern Italy, more precisely in the region of Veneto, the surname Girotto is the diminutive form of the term Giro, which in turn comes from the Latin words Glis ou Gliris, which means aeschylus.
Girotto attributes
Therefore, this surname is a nickname Veneto dialect, that is, typical of the way people spoke in the Veneto region, in Italy, and which refers to the attributes of the small rodent, such as agility, grace, voracity and the long period of hibernation.
It is a family name that arose from the ancient tradition of giving people nicknames and which, from Veneto, ended up spreading throughout Europe and, over the years, it took over the rest of the world.
Popularity
According to the Italian website Cognomix, there are approximately 1157 Girotto families in Italy, 698 in Veneto, 201 in the Piedmont and 141 in Lombardia.
This surname is the 141st most popular in the Veneto region, the 88th most common in the province of Treviso and the 2nd most popular family name in the municipality of Alpignano, in the province of Turin, Piedmont region.
According to the Forebears website, the countries where this surname is most popular are Italy, Brazil, Argentina, France and United States.
Biographies
Among the personalities with the surname Girotto, two of them currently shine in the world of football. The first is the defender Andrey Girotto, 30 years old, who works on the team at Nantes, from France.
Born in Bento Gonçalves, in Rio Grande do Sul, he defended teams in Brazil such as América-MG, Chapecoense and Palmeiras, before moving to Europe in 2017 and establishing itself as a reference in French football.
Girotto on the 'volance'
Another football player who carries the Italian surname is midfielder Gabriel Girotto Franco, also 30 years old, born in Campinas, in São Paulo.
He stood out in São Paulo Junior Football Cup 2011 playing for Paulínia and caught the attention of Botafogo-RJ. After playing for the Rio de Janeiro club, he played for Monte Azul and Palmeiras, the club for which he won the Copa do Brasil in 2015 and the Brazilian Championship in 2016.
He then went to play for Corinthians, the team where he played for the longest time, between 2017 and 2022. With Timão, he was São Paulo champion in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and Brazilian champion in 2017.
In February 2022, Gabriel was hired by Internacional-RS for two seasons.
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