Given name & surname
Lazzaro
“God has helped”
Lazzaro is a masculine given name. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lazzaro goes back to Latin Lazarus, meaning “God has helped.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Lazzaro is a variant of Lazarus. Lazarus has been associated with Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Latin Lazarus, from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος, from Hebrew אלעזר.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Lazzaro is a variant of Lazarus. The history of Lazarus gives this family its wider story. In biblical stories, Lazarus is associated with the man raised from the dead by Jesus.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Lazzaro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,067 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lazzaro’s family of names
Lazzaro shares a linguistic root with Lazarus. In Italian usage, Lazzaro has a conventional equivalent in the French form Lazare. Lazzaro has a related form in Lazarus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lazzaro has relatives in 4 languages.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lazzaro
- Lazzaro SpallanzaniItalian priest, biologist and physiologist (1729-1799)
- Lazzaro BastianiItalian painter (1429-1512)
- Lazarus Zographos9th-century Byzantine Christian saint (810-867) (c.810-867)
- Lazarus BuonamiciItalian humanist1477–1552
- Lazzaro Opizio PallavicinoItalian priest1719–1785
- Lazzaro Grimaldi Cebàpolitician1520–1599
- Lazzaro TavaroneItalian painter (1556-1640)
- Lazzaro VasariItalian painter (1399-1468)
- Lazzaro PallaviciniItalian cardinal1603–1680
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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