Pizzo Family History
- Pizzo Name Meaning
- habitational name from Pizzo (Calabro) in Vibo Valentia province, or from other places named with Pizzo meaning ‘peak’, ‘mountain summit’, otherwise ‘angle’, ‘head’, ‘point’. nickname from a variant of Old Italian piccio ‘little’ or from Southern Italian Greek pitsos with the same meaning. nickname from Old Tuscan pizzo ‘beak’, ‘bill’. nickname from pizzo ‘pointed beard’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 35,713 Historical Documents with Pizzo on Ancestry
- 14,880 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,675 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,275 Military Records
- 4,116 Immigration Records
- 8,767 Member Trees
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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