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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (Calabrian and Sicilian) : from the female personal name Sciascia, a regional pet form of Rosaria.
  • Southern Italian (Calabrian and Sicilian) : otherwise, possibly from Arabic shāsha ‘length of muslin or silk for a turban’.

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