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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name from any of various places called Cesa or Cese, for example Cesa in Caserta province, Campania (Latin Caesa), named with a derivative of caedere ‘to cut’, denoting a place cleared of wood.

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