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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : probably from a diminutive of the personal name Ceri, which has various origins: it can be a topographic name (see Cerro); a nickname for someone with curly hair, from Latin cirrus ‘lock’, ‘curl’; alternatively, it can be from a diminutive of Ricciere, Riccieri (more commonly found as Rizziero), with loss of the first syllable; or from a short form of the Latin occupational name cereterius ‘wax seller’.

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