Frequency: (178)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian (Sicily): nickname for a troublemaker, from a derivative of scatenare ‘to provoke’, ‘to stir up’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 9%; French 6%. Gino, Piero, Rocco; Armand, Girard.
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