 Bovisio Masciago arose in 1928, when the king of Italy Victor Emmanuel III, after consulting Italian Minister of the Interior Benito Mussolini, fused Bovisio and Masciago Milanese.The village was called "Bovisio", but people of Masciago protested; so, in 1947, the municipality was called Bovisio Masciago.The name Bovisio should come from the Latin "bovis otium" and would like to show that in this place the Roman army took the supplies and animals.