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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : occupational name for a maker or seller of clubs or maces, from an agent derivative of mazza ‘club’, ‘mace’. This surname may also have denoted the mace-bearer of a magistrate or bishop, who would walk at the head of a procession, holding the symbolic mace.

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