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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : nickname from la vecchia ‘the old’, applied to a person of either gender, either as a nickname for a man who fussed like an old woman or for someone from an old family, the feminine form probably being due to the influence of the Italian word famiglia ‘family’.

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