Zappa is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Zappa
No. of characters: 5
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Zappa

How popular is Zappa?

Zappa is common in United States.

Zappa is ranked 38888 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Zappas plummeted by 5.660378 per cent to 1100 since 2000 and slipped by 2181 spots and ranked at 23185. The last name was found in around 4 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 96.45 97.86
Hispanic or Latino 1.91 0.77
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.91 0.6
Zappa is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Italy which signifies that it is originated from Italy. Around 12613 people have been found who wears Zappa as their family name. Zappa is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
616,339 India10
101,066 Zimbabwe5
35,184 Poland3
4,367 Afghanistan2
9,272 Ecuador2
65,594 Belgium2
10,858 Tunisia2
24,766 Scotland2
37,372 Georgia2
20,186 Kenya2
54,135 Philippines2
2,190 Barbados1
8,181 Botswana1
37,493 Austria1
408 Åland1
810,193 Indonesia1
30,360 Thailand1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
15,162 Costa Rica1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
2,057 Myanmar1
16,283 Lithuania1
47,891 Norway1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
29,046 Japan1
77,122 Sweden1
16,640 Hong Kong1
2,361 United States Virgin Islands1
12,745 Luxembourg1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
20,906 Israel47
257,310 Russia31
11,444 Portugal28
62,494 Netherlands22
173,579 Ukraine18
91,381 Spain12
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
25,213 Australia95
56,973 South Africa73
Countries with hundreds of Zappa:
6,064 Argentina866
3,015 Switzerland378
4,666 Colombia367
6,893 Greece270
50,182 Germany202
50,564 France196
21,011 Mexico157
26,800 Canada128
34,900 England124
Countries with thousands of Zappa:
1,448 Italy5,935
6,773 Brazil2,051
20,521 United States1,561
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Immigrants to US

From Italy

Ambrogio Zappa hailed from Italy. 13 years old embarked for New York from Naples on Britannia and arrived on November 19, 1886. Carpenter Ambrogio Zappa, Peasant Ang. Zappa, 7 years old Angela Zappa, Laborer Angelo Zappa, 41 years old Angelo Zappa, 42 years old Angelo Zappa, 42 years old Angelo Zappa, Angelo Zappa (42) Laborer, and 84 other Zappa around 32.95% of whom were farmer while others worked as porter and mason, country man, daughter, miner, journalist migrated to US from Genoa, Marseilles & Naples, Palermo and Havre.

Comments

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Heidy Coleman
Zappa is an Italian surname which means pickaxe and is probably applies to the merchant or the user.

Zappa Namesakes

  • Gail Zappa, Frank Zappa's wife
  • Gail Zappa, Frank Zappa's wife
  • Filippo Zappata, Engineer
  • Ahmet Zappa, Writer
  • Asha Zappa, Actress
  • Davide Zappacosta, Soccer player
  • Frank Zappa, Musician
  • Moon Zappa, Actress
  • Filippo Zappata, Engineer
  • Ceylon Indira Zappa, Dweezil Zappa's daughter
  • In 2014 drama flick, Boa Sorte, João Pedro Zappa portrayed João.

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