American Family Name Origins:
Buscaglia
Frequency: (217)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southern Italian: from a derivative of bosco ‘forest’, hence a topographic name for someone living in or near a forest, an occupational name for someone who worked in one, for example a woodcutter, or a nickname for a rough or uncouth person.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 22%; Spanish 9%. Salvatore (5), Angelo (2), Camillo, Carlo, Franco, Gaspare, Gerlando, Giuseppi, Marco, Sal, Sergio, Tosca; Enrique (2), Jose (2), Edgardo.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
