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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : most probably of Albanian origin, from petë ‘dented’, ‘battered’.
  • Italian : possibly from a pet form of a female personal name such as Filippa, Jacopa, etc.
  • Italian : from the Germanic personal name Peta, Patta.

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