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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Hungarian : nickname for someone with a comic appearance, from figura ‘figure’, ‘character’, ‘strange fellow’ (from Latin figura ‘form’, ‘shape’).
  • Southern Italian : possibly from a short form of a personal name formed with figura ‘form’, ‘shape’ (Latin figura; possibly with the same meaning as in 1).

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