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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : either from pulcino ‘young chicken’, probably applied a nickname for someone thought to resemble a chicken in some way or perhaps as a metonymic occupatonal name for someone who raised fowl, or alternatively from a derivative of pulce ‘flea’, applied no doubt as a nickname.

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