Pisciotta Family History
Pisciotta Name Meaning
Italian (mainly Sicily):: habitational name from Pisciotta in Salerno province or from any of the minor places in Sicily called Pisciotto from pisciottu ‘plot allotment’. from a derivative of either pisci ‘fish’ (southern variant of pesce) probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a catcher or seller of fish or pisciu ‘urine’ applied as an unflattering nickname possibly of anecdotal origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022