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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : probably from a variant of zorra ‘vixen’, zorro ‘fox’, applied as nickname either for a crafty or devious person, or possibly a lazy one, the Spanish term for the fox meaning literally ‘the lazy one’, from Old Spanish zorro ‘lazy’ (from zorrar ‘to drag’).

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