Family name origins & meanings
- Southern Italian and Greek (Skafidis) : habitational name for someone from any of the many place in Greece, Southern Italy, and Sicily named with medieval Greek skafidion ‘trough’, ‘tub’, ‘kneading trough’, ‘drinking trough for animals’.
- Southern Italian and Greek (Skafidis) : skaphidion also means ‘skiff’, ‘light boat’, and in some cases this may be an occupational name for a boatman.
- Southern Italian and Greek (Skafidis) : possibly a habitational name for someone from a place named Scafa, in particular a district so named in Capo d’Orlando in Messina, Sicily.