from the medieval personal name Fabrizio, Latin
Fabricius, a Roman family name of unknown, possibly Etruscan,
origin. Already in the Roman period the name was associated by folk
etymology with faber and Latin forms of
the name were extensively used in the late Middle Ages as equivalents
of vernacular terms denoting a smith or other craftsman.
habitational name from Fabrizio, a locality of Corigliano Calabro
in Cosenza province.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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