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
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