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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a derivative of Latin ceresa ‘cherry’, probably applied as a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks or cherry lips, or as a topographic name for someone who lived in a place with an abundance of cherry trees, or as a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of cherries.

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