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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name for someone from Piacenza, so called from Latin Placentia (neuter plural of the present participle of placere ‘to please’).
  • Italian : patronymic from the personal name Piacentino, a pet form of Piacente.

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