Pisciotta Family History

Italian (mainly Sicily): habitational name from Pisciotta in Salerno province or from any of the minor places in Sicily called Pisciotto from pisciottu ‘plot allotment’.

It may also derive from a derivative of either pisci ‘fish’ (southern variant of pesce), probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a catcher or seller of fish.

Alternatively, it could come from pisciu ‘urine’, applied as an unflattering nickname possibly of anecdotal origin.