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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from cinque ‘five’, applied as a nickname for the fifth-born child of a family or for someone from a family of five, or as a nickname or occupational name for someone who served in the Florentine administrative body known as the Magistrato dei Cinque.

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