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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a dialectal variant of ciminiera, ‘chimney’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who someone who built chimneys or worked a furnace, oven, or kiln with a chimney or a nickname for a tall thin person.

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