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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : nickname from Sicilian dialect zizzu (feminine zizza) ‘ostentatiously elegant youth’; also ‘unmarried’, from Arabic ‛azīz ‘beloved’, ‘beautiful’, ‘mighty’ (see Aziz).

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