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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : patronymic from the personal name Zotto, which may derive in part from an old Germanic personal name and in part from a variant of Giotto or a pet form of Ambrogiotto, Angelotto, etc.
  • Italian : possibly a nickname from an old Venetian word, zoto ‘lame’.
  • Albanian : from zot, zoti ‘lord’, ‘master’. This was either a status for a landowner or a nickname for someone who frequently used this word as an oath.

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