The zara Surname
zara Name Meaning and History
- 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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