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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a short form of a nickname derived from Italian scacciare ‘to drive or chase away’.
  • Italian : from Sicilian scacciari ‘to squash’, ‘to crush’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who crushed grapes or pressed olives, or possibly as a nickname for a bully.

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