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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : possibly from patella ‘limpet’, and hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who collected shell fish, or a nickname for a tenacious or withdrawn person.
  • Italian : nickname or metonymic occupational name from a variant of patella ‘porringer’, ‘frying pan’.

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