Zara Family History
Zara Name Meaning
Italian: habitational name from the Italian name for the city
of Zadar on the Dalmatian coast in former Yugoslavia.Italian: in
Sicily, possibly from a variant of zagara, zagra,
zaara ‘orange flower’, or, in Venezia, possibly a variant of
Zadra.Spanish: probably a metronymic from the female
personal name Sara, Zara (see Sara).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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Name Distribution of Zara Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Zara families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Zara Family Origin
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Zara Family Occupations
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