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zara Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: habitational name from the Italian name for the city of Zadar on the Dalmatian coast in former Yugoslavia.
  2. Italian: in Sicily, possibly from a variant of zagara, zagra, zaara ‘orange flower’, or, in Venezia, possibly a variant of Zadra.
  3. Spanish: probably a metronymic from the female personal name Sara, Zara (see Sara).
  4. Basque: topographic name from Basque zara ‘wood’, ‘thicket’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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zara Family Facts

Distribution of zara Families in the US in 1920
Number of zara families
 8-14
 3-7
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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