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.