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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a diminutive of Sio, an unattested pet form of the personal name Desio.
  • Italian : variant of Ziino, which is probably a nickname for a good singer, from Sicilian ziinu ‘linnet’.

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