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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for a follower of the Medicis, from palla ‘ball’ (here referring to the balls on the coat-of-arms of the Medici family) + the suffix -eschi denoting descendants, or retainers or followers.

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