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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from eastern Slavic zayats, zaets ‘hare’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Zajtsy in Belarus, derived from ‘hare’.

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