Originally Posted by chin_gigante
Doesn't Rizzuto also mean erect or something like that


https://www.cognomix.it/origine-cognome/rizzuto.php

The surname should derive from nicknames that indicated that the progenitor had curly hair.
Traces of these surnames are found in Mazzo (SO) in the second half of 1500 with a certain Giovannino Rizzettus.