Pizzi Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Pizzi is best understood alongside Pizzo: both are Italian spellings of one family name. The name is usually explained as “Peak / from Pizzo”. The change of ending between Pizzo and Pizzi reflects the Italian habit of naming a family in the plural or the singular. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Pizzi with 1,431 bearers, at rank 19,027. 198 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Pizzi name at birth. The name became more frequent over the century.

There is no single Pizzi family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Want more than a summary? See the Pizzi family name pack.