Punzi has a stump in the Salerno and one, much more important in Puglia, between Tarentine and Brindisino, Punzio, absolutely rare, it would seem Sicilian, Punzo has a large nucleus in Naples, a strain in the Foggia and Tarentine, one in Crotonese and one in Palermitano, Punch is almost unique, should derive from the medieval name Punzo, punched is of which we have an example in a paper Promissionis et refutationis of the year 1118 in Milan: "Year ab Incarnatione domini our Iesu Christi milleximo Centeximo Tenth octavo , Iulii canteens, Indictione Undecima. Vobis Ariprando et Amizoni germanis, Filiis quondam Iohannis, et Guilielmo...... Petro item Germanis, Filiis quondam item Petri, qui dicuntur Cornalii, de civitate Mediolani, promittimus atque spondemus nos Punzo et Tado et Scotto Germani, filii quondam Petri here Dicebatur Faciatagliata, de Suprascripta civitate... ", could also derive By modifications of the medieval name Ponzio, from the Latin name Pontius, but, according to an accredited hypothesis, would derive from the Spanish house of the Ponce. Additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Punzi is frequent surname in Puglia and Campania but also in the north. It is a variant of the surname Ponzi which has at the base the ancient Latin noble Pontius, perhaps of Etruscan origin or derived from the Osco Pùntiis or Pompties, connectable with the Osco * Pompe = Five, to indicate the name imposed by the Sabines to the fifth born son. According to some other scholar could come from the Greek ' póntos ' = river. The diffusion of the surname Ponzi is due to the cult of San Ponzio.
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