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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