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The Campisciano name is another one of those mysteries, I spent many hours researching this question, not finding any specific proof I devoted my time at the overall history of Sicily in the hope of finding some clues.
One of the earliest record of the name I could find was in Contessa Entellina, a Gioacchino Campisciano born in 1675 and married to Anna of unknown family name.
The citadels of Contessa Entellina and Palazzo Adriano. included Albanians that came to Sicily during the Ottoman invasion of Albania in 1431 thus the region was subject to an Albanian cultural influences, even here the name Campisciano has no roots, Arbreshe name lists, shows no similarities to the name, The name Campisciano is unique and definitely traceable to the valley of the river Sosio during the Aragon rule.
Today the name is largely diffused in the region surrounding the towns of Bisacquino, Burgio, Caltabellotta, Corleone, Giuliana, Palazzo Adriano, Caltanisetta, Messina, Palermo etc. Yet the name does not feature in any lists that shows typical Italian or Sicilian names.
 However my research based on some assumption lead me to think that the name is a variation of an Italian name found in the records of noble families of Italy, that of Campisano or Campisiano, diffused in the same areas of the Campisciano surname, also in the Calabria region.
The Campisano surname is an ancient surname in Sicily, there are record in Ucria (province of Messina) of Federico Campisano lord of Ucria, a noble Catanese family according to Mugnos and Minutoli, where he notes that Enrico Campisano or Campisiano was a senator of Catania in 1470. Even then the name assumed the two forms of spelling. The other name that would align with this assumption is that of Campiciano.
How does a noble name result in that of non noble family is another question Under Aragon rule the assignment of hereditary names to common people first commenced in Sicily in the middle of the 13th century, this was done to better identify individuals and administer taxes. At least this is what Historians like us to believe. Many of the associated family names of common people give the impression that such names existed prior to 13th century and that common family names were used long before this, and not just by noble people. Only that registration of family names first commenced in Sicily in the 13th century.
In the 13th century, literacy had fallen from what it was back in the Greek, Byzantine and Norman periods, the clergy was given the task to record these new hereditary names. It is easy to understand the variations in the spelling of some names, the person recording the name wrote in a manner that depended on the speakers pronunciation afflicted with a the strong dialect, the scribes interpretation of the sounding name resulted in the forms we find today. We can see a parallel in the immigration records of the United States, it was written as it sounded to the scribe, many names into the United States got changed, yet another variable to contend with when you do research on a family name, in my research Campisciano first appears back in 1675 in Contessa Entellina.
Then there is the questions of where did the first family come from? Were they settlers bought in by Matteo Sclafani, or some other during the Aragonese period? All questions seeking an answer. Maybe we will never know.
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