Sicilian Submitted Surnames

These names are a subset of Italian names used more often by speakers of Sicilian. See also about Italian names.

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Anastasi Sicilian

Arlotta Sicilian
From the French personal name Arlot, recorded in the Latinized form Arolottus from the 13th century.

Arra Galician, Sicilian
Habitational name from a place in Galicia called Arra, this surname was also found in some parts of Sicily.

Augugliaro Sicilian

Balestrieri Sicilian
Variant of Balistreri

Balistreri Sicilian
Means "archer, crossbowman" or "crossbow maker" in Sicilian.

Bellanca Sicilian
Originally a nickname derived from Italian bella "beautiful" and anca "hip".

Bennici Sicilian (Italianized)

Broccoli Italian, Sicilian
Best known as the surname of the (Calabrian-originated) Sicilian American family who made James Bond internationally famous, by making movies (loosely) based on the books where the titular antihero himself appeared.

Buccambuso Sicilian, Italian
Believed to be an Americanization of the surname Buccinfuso

Buscemi Sicilian
Name for someone originally from the town of Buscemi in Sicily, derived from the Arabic toponym قلعة أبي شامة‎ (qal'at 'abi shama) meaning "castle of the man with the mole‎" or "castle of (the family of) Abi Shama".

Cacioppo Italian, Sicilian
Derived from Sicilian cacioppu meaning "dried tree trunk", presumably applied as a nickname for someone with wizened skin, or from caciopu meaning "short-sighted" (derived from Greek kakiopes, literally meaning "having bad eyes").

Camarata Sicilian
Name from city in Sicily: Cammarata

Cammareri Sicilian, Italian
Means "servant, waiter" in Sicilian.

Caporale Italian, Sicilian
From caporale, meaning "corporal"

Cattano Sicilian (Rare)

Cera Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Sicilian
Metonymic occupational name for a wax seller, derived from Latin cera meaning "wax".

Circelli Sicilian
Derived from Sicilian circedda meaning "(hoop) earring", originally used to denote someone who wore hoop earrings.

Cravotta Sicilian
From a Sicilian immigrant to America, Cravotta was changed to Cravatta upon arrival at Ellis Island. The name means "bowtie."

Faraci Sicilian
Patronymic from farace; deriving from Arab farag.

Farana Italian, Sicilian
Variant of Farano.

Farano Italian, Sicilian
Possibly deriving from a town Faranò in province of Messina, Sicily. Possible variant of Surname faran which comes from Irish surnames Ó Fearáin, Ó Faracháin, or Ó Forannáin.

Fauci Sicilian
Means "sickle" in Sicilian, originally an occupational name for a maker of sickles.

Gangemi Sicilian, Italian
Arab origin meaning healer

Guccione Italian, Sicilian
Derived from the given name Guccio, a diminutive of Arriguccio, Uguccio and other names ending in guccio.

Lamalfa Sicilian
Variant of Malfa, most probably a habitational name for someone from Malfa on the island of Salina (Messina), although the name has also been linked with Amalfi in Salerno and Melfi in Potenza.

Licinio Italian (Rare), Sicilian (Rare)
From the given name Licinius

Machi Sicilian
Unexplained. It may be from the Albanian personal name Maqo. Derivation from a Greek name ending in -akis, which has been suggested, is implausible.

Magdalena Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Occitan, Italian, Sicilian, Romanian, Greek, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovene
From the given name Magdalena.

Mannazzu Sardinian (Archaic), Sicilian (Rare, Archaic), Corsican (Modern, Rare), Italian (Rare)
It came from the Ancient Nuraghi people. the Nuraghi people inhabited southern Corsica and northern and central Sardinia.

Maranzano Italian, Sicilian

Matracia Sicilian
Family from Termini-Imerese, Sicily.

Minagro Sicilian
Minagro: A Sicilian surname, with Latin & Greek etymological origins. Min: from Latin minusculus/little or small — Agro: from both Latin agro/field & Greek αγρό agro/field

Mirabella Italian, Sicilian
Italian (Campania and Sicily): habitational name from Mirabella Eclano in Avellino or Mirabella Imbaccari in Catania, or from various places with the name Mirabello, all named from medieval Latin mira, "viewpoint", and bella, "beautiful"... [more]

Muscarà Sicilian

Occhipinti Sicilian
Derived from Italian occhi "eyes" and pinti "painted", denoting someone with dark eyelashes or with flecked or blood-shot eyes.

Puglisi Sicilian
Southern Italian variant of Pugliese.

Puleo Sicilian
origin- common name found in Palermo in Scicily

Racioppi Italian, Sicilian
Derived from Sicilian racioppu meaning "cluster of grapes", hence presumably a metonymic occupational name for someone who sold or produced grapes.

Raia Italian, Sicilian
Either a topographic name from Sicilian raia ‘smilax’ (a climbing shrub), or else derived from Sicilian raja meaning ‘ray’, or ‘skate’ (the fish), presumably a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish or a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller.

Rappa Italian, Sicilian
from Sicilian rappa meaning ‘bunch, cluster’ or Italian rappa meaning ‘lock, quiff’, which was presumably applied as a nickname with reference to someone’s hair.

Riina Sicilian
Derived from Sicilian rijina meaning "queen".

Sabella Sicilian

Scellato Italian, Sicilian
Variant of Scillato.

Scillato Italian, Sicilian
Comes from the commune of Scillato in Sicily, Italy, southeast of Palermo.

Scuderi Sicilian
Patronymic form of Scudero, a status name equivalent to English Squire, from scudero "shield-bearer", Latin scutarius, an agent derivative of scutum "shield"... [more]

Siciliano Italian, Sicilian
One who came from Sicily.

Siracusa Italian, Sicilian
From the name of the city of Syracuse in Sicily, Italy (siracusa in Italian and sarausa in Sicilian).

Trifiletti Sicilian
Topographic name from a diminutive of Greek triphyllon "trefoil".

Turturro Italian, Sicilian
Metonymic occupational name for a groom (a person employed to take care of horses), derived from Sicilian turturo, (ultimately from Italian tortoro) meaning "straw or hay plait used for strapping horses"... [more]

Vicari Sicilian

Zicari Italian, Sicilian
Southern Italian and Sicilian from an unattested Arabic personal name Zikri or Zikari.

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