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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese and Galician : patronymic from the personal name Paio, equivalent of Spanish Pelayo.
  • Italian : when not of the same origin as 1, a nickname from Greek pais ‘boy’, ‘lad’, ‘servant’.

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