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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a diminutive of Fresia and hence an ethnic name for someone from Friesland, also applied as a personal name.
  • Italian : possibly a variant of Frosina, from a reduced form of the Greek personal name Euphrosynē ‘joy’, ‘happiness’.

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