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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Galician (Peciña) : habitational name from any of the places called Peciña, in Logroño, Aragon, and Lugo, Galicia.
  • Spanish : nickname from pecina ‘mud’, ‘slurry’, commonly used to refer to shoemakers, with reference to the dark layer of polish covering their hands and clothes.

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