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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : nickname from Bagnato ‘bathed’, from the past participle of bagnare ‘to bathe’.
  • Southern Italian : habitational name from any of various minor places named with a derivative of bagno ‘bath’ (Latin balneum).

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