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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : metonymic occupational name for a tanner or for someone who removed or worked the bark from the cork oak, from scorza ‘bark’, ‘peel’, ‘skin’, a derivative of scorzare ‘to skin or flay’ (Latin excoriare, from corium ‘skin’, ‘hide’).

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