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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : metonymic occupational name for a cobbler or shoemaker, from zapato ‘half boot’.
  • Spanish and Galician : possibly also a habitational name from the places in Pontevedra and Ávila called Zapata.

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