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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for someone considered to resemble a magpie in some way: possibly a person known for chattering or pilfering, from a diminutive of gazza ‘magpie’.
  • Italian : habitational name from Gazzola, a place in Piacenza province.

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