Frequency: (117)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southern Italian (Sicily): from Sicilian circedda, circeddu, circhetta ‘hoop earring’, a despriptive epithet for someone who wore hoop earrings.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 26%. Angelo (3), Carmine (2), Antonio, Donato, Matteo, Pasquale, Raffaele, Salvatore.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
