Zanghi

Family name origins & meanings

• Italian : plural form of Zanga, itself a variant of Zanca.
• Italian : nickname for a peevish, cantankerous man, from medieval Greek tsanggos ‘rancid’, ‘mouldy’, ‘rank’.
• Italian : variant of Zanchi, a metonymic occupational name for a bootmaker, from medieval Greek tsanga ‘boot’ (see Zangari).