Zapatero History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
Spain

The origins the old family name Zapatero can be found within medieval Spain. While the patronymic and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the name of the father and mother respectively, are the most common form of a hereditary surname in Spain, occupational surnames also emerged during the late Middle Ages. Spanish names were influenced by the Germanic speaking Visigoths, who conquered Spain from the mid-5th to 8th centuries, and the Arabic and Muslim Moors who conquered the Spanish homeland from the 8th to 12th centuries. Since Spain was periodically dominated by both of these nations in its past, it shared much in common with both the Visigoths and the Muslims in the occupations they described.

Early Origins of the Zapatero family

The surname Zapatero was first found in Castile, whose language and culture would be carried to many countries of the world.

Early History of the Zapatero family

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Zapatero Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Zapata, Zapato, Zapatero, Zapatera, Sabato, Sabata and many more.

Early Notables of the Zapatero family

Notable bearers of the family name Zapatero were Luis Zapata, sixteenth century poet, who wrote an epic about the life of King Charles V; sixteenth century writer Rodrigo Zapata y Palafox; Antonio de Zapata...
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Zapatero migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Zapatero Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Anton Zapatero, who landed in America in 1813 1

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)