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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for a lame or stooped person, from various dialect words, now no longer distinguishable, notably Venetian zanca meaning ‘turn’, ‘fold’, ‘bend’, or zanca, an old dialect word, associated particularly with Tuscany and Sardinia, meaning ‘leg’.

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