Cannizzo Family History
Cannizzo Name Meaning
Italian (southern): metonymic occupational name for a maker of reed matting and the like from Sicilian cannizzu ‘reed matting’ from Late Latin cannicius ‘made of reed’ or possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a reedbed from a collective derivative of canna ‘reed’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022