surname meaning
i am trying to find the meaning of the surname "caico" .a sicilian name from the town of favara,agrigento,sicely.thank you .joe
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"Caicos" as in the Turks and Caicos islands comes from a Lucayan term "caya hico" meaning "a string of islands". That's the only thing that comes readily to mind!
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Difficult to find! To me it sounds as a surname with a possible greek origin like KAIKOS or something like that.
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According to the german Gerhard Rohlfs who has studied sicilian surnames this one could come from a sort of a ship called "caicu" in Sicilian and "caico in Italian. This word has a turkish origin.
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