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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from buccellato ‘ring-shaped loaf’, ‘long-keeping bread’ (from Latin buccellatum ‘biscuit’), applied as metonymic occupational name for a baker or as a nickname for someone who was well preserved or long lived.

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