Family name origins & meanings
- Italian (Messina) : from a variant of the personal name Caetano (see Gaetano).
- Italian (Messina) : variant of Cattano, an occupational name for a producer or seller of cotton, from Arabic qạṭtān.
- Italian (Messina) : variant of Cattaneo.
- Italian (Messina) : with the stress on the second a, it could be from Old Italian cattano ‘captain’.