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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a diminutive of the personal name Francesco (Italian equivalent of Francis). In the Venetian dialect cic(c)o is a term of endearment meaning ‘little one’, ‘baby’, which De Felice suggests could also lie behind the surname in some instances.

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