Pizzo Family History

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’.