FamilyEducation.com
   
 

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: metonymic occupational name for a needle maker from Old French aguillard, a variant (with a change of suffix) of aguillier, from a(i)guille ‘needle’.
  2. French: from Old French aguille ‘needle’ + the pejorative suffix -ard, hence a derogatory nickname for an irritating person.