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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Spanish : nickname for a fat or greedy man, from panza ‘belly’, ‘paunch’ (in Italian a variant of pancia).
  • Southern Italian (Naples) : possibly a habitational name from Panza, a district of Forio.

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