Pagnotta is widespread in Umbria, in the Roman period, in all of Campania and Calabria and in Sicily, in some cases it may derive from toponyms such as Tor Pagnotta in the Roman period, but it is also possible to derive from nicknames, very ancient traces of this surname. we find in Anagni (FR) in 1330: "... I know well the Abbot Ughelli in the first Tome of his Italy Sagra in Ecclesia Anagnina col. 341, number 42, speaking of Francesco Giovanni Pagnotta Bishop of the said City, and our Religious ( the promotion of which to the aforesaid Chiesa d'Anagni we recorded ourselves under the Year of Christo 1330) says, that it was from Pope Benedict XII in the first year of his Pontificate on 7 March, that is in the year 1335 created his Pontifical Vicar in Rome , and then adds, that the same Pontiff in the third year of his pontificate also granted them special gratitude to be able to confer the Ecclesiastical Benefits of his Diocese ... ". additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Pagnotta, very frequent throughout the Italian mainland (mostly in Lazio). It could derive, like the Italian noun 'pagnotta', from the Latin 'panis' = bread, but also be an altered of the surname PAGNI which is apheretic of BONCOMPAGNI.
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