Zapata Family History
Zapata Name Meaning
Spanish: metonymic occupational name for a cobbler or
shoemaker, from zapato ‘half boot’.Spanish and Galician:
possibly also a habitational name from the places in Pontevedra and
Ávila called Zapata.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Zapata
Name Distribution of Zapata Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Zapata families
 62 - 122  21 - 61 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Zapata families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Zapata census records
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Zapata Family Origin
Zapata Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Zapata
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Zapata Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Zapata census records
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Zapata Civil War Service Records
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