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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name Chirico, Latin Cyriacus or Quiricus, Greek Kyriakos (see Cyr), a personal name of the early Christian era, an adjectival form meaning ‘of the Lord’. There may have been some confusion with church Latin clericus ‘cleric’ (Italian chierico).

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