Origin and popularity of the name BAIL

Origin

Bail : 1: English: variant of Bale.2: French (northern) and Walloon: nickname from Old French bail ‘governor regent bailiff’.3: Indian (Karnataka): topographic name from Tulu bail ‘low-lying land’ (Dravidian vayal ‘plain field’).

Baglio : 1: Italian: from baglio ‘bailiff steward official’ (from Late Latin baiulivus) an occupational name for an administrative judicial or political functionary of some kind (the precise meaning of the term varied from region to region and time to time) or sometimes perhaps a nickname for an officious person.2: Italian (Sicily): topographic name from bbàgliu bbàgghiu ‘farmyard’ from Old French bail.

Balment : from Bailleulmont (Pas-de-Calais) whose name includes a derivative of Old French bail baille ‘fortification’ (which also provides the defunct surname Balliol Baliol) + mont ‘hill mount’.

Cation : Scottish (Fife): perhaps from Scots caution cation in the sense ‘person who stands bail for others’. Black suggests that it may be a variant of Catton.

Pledge : English (southeastern): from Middle English plegge ‘surety guarantor bail pledge’ probably denoting someone who stood bail in a lawsuit. See Pledger.

Pledger : 1: English (southeastern): from Middle English pleggere ‘one who stands bail in a lawsuit’ (Anglo-Norman French pleger ‘sponsor guarantor’); see Pledge.2: In some cases also an Americanized form of German Pletscher.

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