First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Italian (mainly Sicily): of Norman French origin, a derivative of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements agio ‘edge (of a sword)’ + hard ‘bold’, ‘hardy’. Compare Ackert.