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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : occupational name for an officer of justice, giudice (Latin iudex, from ius ‘law’ + dicere ‘to say’). In some cases it may have been applied as a nickname for a solemn and authoritative person thought to behave like a judge.

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