Pizzo Family History
Pizzo Name Meaning
Italian:: habitational name from Pizzo (Calabro) in Vibo Valentia province or from other places called with pizzo meaning ‘peak mountain summit’ otherwise ‘angle head’ ‘point’. nickname from a variant of Old Italian piccio ‘little’ or from southern Italian Greek pitsos a borrowing from Italian with the same meaning. nickname from pizzo ‘pointed beard’. from a shortened form of the personal name Opizzo itself from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with the element audha ‘power wealth’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022