Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : from baglio ‘bailiff’, ‘steward’, ‘official’ (Late Latin baiulivus), an occupational name for an administrative, judicial, or political functionary of some kind (the precise meaning of the term varied from region to region and time to time), or sometimes perhaps a nickname for an officious person.
- Sicilian : topographic name from bbàgliu, bbàgghiu ‘farmyard’, from Old French bail.