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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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