Given name & surname · also Old Spanish
Zaragoza
Zaragoza is a surname from Old Spanish, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Spanish and Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Zaragoza comes from Old Spanish, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Spanish Çaragoça, from Old Navarro-Aragonese Zaragoza, from Andalusian Arabic سَرَقُسْطَة (saraqusṭa), from Latin Caesaraugusta.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zaragoza through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 60
- 60 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 12 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 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 163 as a first name in 2020; 18,170 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.
Zaragoza’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Zaragoza as a surname has a related form in ZARAGOSA. In Greek usage, Zaragoza as a surname is a transliteration of Ζαραγόζα.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Around the world
Zaragoza has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
2 related names in 3 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.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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