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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a derivative of Pisto (see Pistilli) or from Sicilian pistuni ‘pestle’, probably linked with the notion of pounding or crushing, and hence perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a spicer, grocer, or apothecary.

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