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ROCCO

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Italian form of a Germanic name derived from the element hrok meaning "rest". This was the name of a 14th-century saint who nursed victims of the plague but eventually contracted the disease himself. He is the patron saint of the sick.
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