Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : regional name for someone from Apulia (Italian Puglia) in southeastern Italy, from an adjectival form of the place name.
- Italian : habitational name from a place named Pugliano, in particular the locality so called in Montecorvino Pugliano, in Salerno province, but also one in Teano in Caserta province, named as inhabited by or belonging to people from Apulia.