Italian: from battaglia ‘battle’, ‘fight’ (a feminine noun
from the Late Latin neuter plural battualia ‘military
exercises’), applied as a nickname for a combative person, or a
topographic name for someone who lived at a place remembered as the
site of a battle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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