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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (especially Sicily) : occupational name for someone who gathered or used straw, from an agent derivative of paglia ‘straw’ or from pagliaro ‘straw-rick’.
  • Southern Italian (especially Sicily) : topographic name for someone who lived near a straw-loft or barn (Late Latin palearium) or a habitational name from any of the places named Pagliaro, Pagliara, and Pagliare.

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