Spanish: metonymic occupational name for a cobbler or
shoemaker, from zapato ‘half boot’.Spanish and Galician:
possibly also a habitational name from the places in Pontevedra and
Ávila called Zapata.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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