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.
Spanish: Castilianized variant of Basque Zaraitzu, a
habitational name from a town so named in Navarre.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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