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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from an old Tuscan nickname Cianci(a), derived from cianciare ‘to chatter’, ‘to talk idly’.
  • Italian : from an adaptation of the Spanish personal name Sancho.
  • Italian : topographic name for someone who lived by a boundary, from Old French chanche ‘border’.

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