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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : probably from Southern Italian Greek miććo ‘small’.
  • Italian : Alternatively, from an Old Tuscan nickname, Miccio, from the vocabulary word miccio ‘ass’, ‘donkey’.
  • Italian : from Sicilian micciu ‘wick’, applied as a nickname for a tall thin man.

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