Zamora surname meaning

Zamora is a Spanish habitational surname for someone from the city, province, or wider region of Zamora in northwestern Spain. The surname’s meaning is therefore “from Zamora,” while the deeper origin of the city name itself remains debated. Proposed explanations include pre-Roman, Celtic, Arabic, and Berber connections, so a speculative literal gloss should not be treated as settled fact. Samora and De Zamora can appear as spelling or naming variants. Place is the high-confidence catalog type because the geographic reference is clear even when the place-name etymology is not.