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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Historian

First name variations: Ciro, Cecero, Ciceron

Last name origin & meaning:

Southern Italian: from cicero ‘pea’ (Latin cicer, ciceris ‘chickpea’, ‘lentil’), possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold peas, or perhaps as a nickname for someone with a carbuncle or pimple. The Roman republican lawyer and statesman Cicero was so named because he had a growth resembling a chickpea on his face.

This name appears in the following lists: Names from Shakespeare