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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a feminine form of fiocco ‘tuft of wool’ or ‘ribbon’, ‘tape’, also recorded as a personal name.
  • Italian : from southern Italian fiocca ‘(broody) hen’, also used in the figurative sense ‘mother hen’.

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