Lazar Family History
Lazar Name Meaning
Jewish, German, Hungarian (Lázár), Slovenian, and
Polish: from a personal name of Aramaic origin, a reduced form of the
Hebrew male personal name Elazar, composed of the elements
El ‘God’ + azar ‘help’, and meaning ‘may God help him’
or ‘God has helped (i.e., by granting a son)’. This was well
established in central Europe as a Jewish name, but was also popular
among Christians because it is recorded in the New Testament.
Lazaros is the New Testament Greek form of the name of the
brother of Martha and Mary, who was restored to life by Christ (John
11: 1–44). As a non-Jewish name it was also used as a nickname for a
beggar or an outcast leper; this use arises from the parable of Dives
and Lazarus (Luke 16: 19–31). HH; AB, AC It may also be Greek, a
shortened form of a patronymic based on this name, for example
Lazarakis, Lazaridis, Lazaroglou,
Lazaropoulos.Slovenian: topographic name for someone
who lived in a area of cleared woodland, from laz ‘cleared
woodland’ + the agent noun suffix -ar.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lazar Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lazar families
 35 - 68  12 - 34 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lazar families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lazar Family Origin
Lazar Immigration Information
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Lazar Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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