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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wisa ‘wise’ + hard ‘brave’, ‘hardy’.
  • Southern Italian : (in Calabria and Sicily) from Sicilian biscardu ‘cunning’, ‘shrewd’, ‘astute’.

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