Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish : habitational name for someone ‘from Zamora’, from an adjectival form of the place name.
- Spanish : possibly also habitational name for someone from Zanbrana, a town in Araba province, Basque Country.
- Italian : of uncertain derivation; it is thought by some authorities, on the basis of the form Zammarano to be a habitational name for someone from Zammaro, part of San Gregorio d’Ippona in Vibe Valentia province, hypercorrection of -mm- to -mb- being a characteristic of southern dialect.