Frequency: (156)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: of uncertain origin; possibly from a variant of Sicilian vrazza ‘bracelet’, ‘armlet’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 9%. Caesar, Emidio, Lorenzo, Marco, Oreste.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
