Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : habitational name from Pizzo (Calabro) in Vibo Valentia province, or from other places named with Pizzo meaning ‘peak’, ‘mountain summit’, otherwise ‘angle’, ‘head’, ‘point’.
- Italian : nickname from a variant of Old Italian piccio ‘little’ or from Southern Italian Greek pitsos with the same meaning.
- Italian : nickname from Old Tuscan pizzo ‘beak’, ‘bill’.
- Italian : nickname from pizzo ‘pointed beard’.