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The salazar Surname

salazar Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish: habitational name from a place called Salazar in Burgos, probably named with sala ‘hall’ + Basque za(h)ar ‘old’, and thus a Basque equivalent of Saavedra.
  2. Spanish: Castilianized variant of Basque Zaraitzu, a habitational name from a town so named in Navarre.

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Distribution of salazar Families in the US in 1920
Number of salazar families
 182-362
 61-181		 1-60
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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