A surname from Italian.

A twig or shoot; a cutting. / (obsolete) A descendant, a scion. / A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier). / A long, thin piece of something.

simple past tense and past participle of equip

A surname from Italian. / A powerful and influential aristocratic Florentine family from the 13th to 17th centuries. / A member of this family.