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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a feminine pet form of Fisco, itself a reduced form of Frisco, a medieval pet form of the personal name Francesco (from the Latin form Franciscus).
  • Southern Italian : from Sicilian fiscella ‘small wicker basket for conserving cheese’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a cheesemaker or basket maker.

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