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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : from a dimuntive of Old Italian and Sicilian spica ‘spike’ (Latin spica), possibly applied as a nickname; the Sicilian term also denotes ‘lavender’, and may have been applied as a topographic name.

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