Frequency: (128)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: variant of Sganga, possibly from a short form of a compound name formed with Sicilian sgangari ‘ to glean’, ‘to pick’, ‘to pull out’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 8%. Antonio, Giuseppe, Ugo.
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