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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : variant of Vacca (from vacca ‘cow’), a metonymic occupational name denoting a cowherd or a nickname for a rough-mannered or unsophisticated person.
  • Southern Italian : from bacca ‘berry’, perhaps applied as a metonymic occupational name for a gatherer or seller of berries.

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