Family name origins & meanings
- Southern Italian : habitational name from any of numerous minor places named Dattilo.
- Southern Italian : from the personal name Dattilo, a pet form of a Germanic personal name, Dado, Daddo, Datto.
- Southern Italian : patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Attilio.
- Southern Italian : possibly a nickname from Greek daktylos ‘finger’, which also means ‘date palm’ (Latin dactylus).