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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the title of rank duca ‘duke’ (Latin dux, genitive ducis ‘leader’), an occupational name for someone who lived or worked in the household of a duke or a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and graces like a duke.
  • Hungarian : of uncertain derivation, probably a nickname for a fat person.

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