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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : from an old Sicilian word scrima ‘fencing’, a derivative of scrimire ‘to fence’, presumably a nickname for a skilled swordsman or perhaps for a quarrelsome person.
  • Italian (Sicily) : alternatively, it may be a descriptive nickname from Sicilian scrima ‘parting (of the hair)’.

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