Zanin Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Zanin, so the heraldry linked to Zanini is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Meaning of the name

Anyone researching Zanin should also look under Zanini. Its meaning, shared with Zanini, is “Little John”.

Before spelling was fixed, Zanini was also written Zanin. Related forms: Zani. 371 Americans were listed as Zanin in the 2010 census. It sits among the 100,000 most common last names in the country. French birth records list 866 children named Zanin between 1891 and 2000. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

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