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Type Surname (from nickname)
Usage Italian (Rare)
Meaning & History
From the name of the Sunday that follows Easter, called Quasimodo Sunday, which gets its name from the opening words of the Latin chant quasi modo meaning "like the way" (see Quasimodo as a first name), possibly denoted somebody who was born or baptized in the first Sunday after Easter. Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature.