found: Am. family names, viewed online October 7, 2021:Pagano (Italian: from the personal name Pagano, Latin Paganus, from a word meaning 'village dweller'; 2. Spanish equivalent of Catalan Pagà (see Pagan), cognate with 1) Pagan (1. Spanish (Pagán): Castilianized spelling of Catalan Pagà, from the Late Latin personal name Paganus, which originally meant 'dweller in an outlying village' (see Paine). 2. Spanish: in some cases it may be a topographic name from Catalan pagà 'heath', from Latin pagus 'district', 'outlying village'. 3. Northern English and Scottish: probably from the Latin medieval personal name Paganus, the vernacular form of which was Paine (see Paine))