Frequency: (115)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: 1. from a feminine form of fiocco ‘tuft of wool’ or ‘ribbon’, ‘tape’, also recorded as a personal name. 2. from southern Italian fiocca ‘(broody) hen’, also used in the figurative sense ‘mother hen’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 13%. Deno (2), Angelo, Dante, Enrico, Salvatore.
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