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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from fico ‘fig’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold figs, a topographic name for someone who lived in an area where figs grew, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as the district so named in Valderice, Trapani province, Sicily.

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