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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a personal name representing a vernacular form of Latin Nazareus or Greek Nazarios, a derivative of Nazareth (Hebrew Natserat, perhaps from a root meaning ‘to guard or protect’), applied to early Christians as followers of Jesus of Nazareth and accepted by them as an honorable personal name.

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