Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from battaglia ‘battle’, ‘fight’ (a feminine noun from the Late Latin neuter plural battualia ‘military exercises’), applied as a nickname for a combative person, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a place remembered as the site of a battle.

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe