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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : habitational name for someone from Frasca in Sicily, or a topographic name from frasca ‘branch’, which in Sicily also denotes a type of tree resembling the ash. Alternatively, it may be a nickname linked with the practice of collecting twigs to support vegetable crops.

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