Zurolo


Zurolo is an Italian surname.

Variations

Zollino, Zorlino, ''Zullini, Zullo, Zurla, Zurli, Zurlini, Zurlino, Zurlo, Zuroli, Zurri, Zurro.''

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, among all known bearers of the surname Zurolo there were residents in various countries as follows: Italy, of United States of America, of Germany, of France, of Switzerland and Netherlands.

Origins and diffusion

Zollino is present in Apulia, in the Lecce area.
Zullini is a surname that is not very common in Italy. The region where it is most present is Veneto, then descending are: Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio, Tuscany, and Marche.
Zullo is mostly present in the Campania region, on average in: Apulia, Molise, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Lazio and less in the rest of the other Italian regions, It also has a lineage in Messina.
Zurla is present in Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, less in other Italian regions.
Zurli is mostly present in Tuscany, on average in Lazio, Lombardy, Umbria, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria, and to a lesser extent in other Italian regions. The countries where this surname is generally widespread are: Brazil, Argentina, France and Switzerland, less so in others.
Zurlino is present in the majority in the Molise region, followed by Abruzzo and Emilia-Romagna. The nations in which the surname is present, by intensity, are: Australia more than Italy, United States of America, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Germany and Kenya.
Zurlo is present in Calabria, Campania, Lucania, Molise and Apulia and others regions.
Zurolo is the archaic form of the surname Zurlo, it is very widespread in Castellammare di Stabia and in the Neapolitan hinterland area. It seems that the surname is very frequent in southern Italy, however, it also has a strain in the Padua area.
Zuroli is present only in the Basilicata region, with only a few families bearing this surname today.
Zurri is present only in Tuscany, Umbria, Piedmont and Liguria.
Zurro is present in: Apulia, Campania, Sicily, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and on average in other regions.

Meaning

Zollino is perhaps predical: from the Zurolo family.
Zullo could derive from the modified italian name of Giulio.
Zurla could derive from a Tuscan nickname, meaning noise. The Zurla family, the Cremonese branch of the Neapolitan Zurolo family, bore this variant of their surname, which then spread throughout that area of Lombardy, arriving in Cremona in the 12th century.
Zuroli is a plural form of the more common Zurolo, is associated with the Zurolo family. Zurli family, the Trieste branch of the Neapolitan Zurolo family bore this variant of the surname, which has been mentioned in Trieste since the 15th century.Zurlino is a surname derived from Zurolo and Zurlo, it has the same meanings.
Zurlo certainly originates from the Greek 'Zurlos' = crazy. n. m. . – In the Gorizia dialect it means silly or stupid. In the Venetian dialect, spinning top; fig., person of little brain, or reckless, escaped. Żurlo n. m. , ancient Tuscan – ruzzo, lively and noisy cheerfulness, desire to joke, and similar. The Zurlo family, a Calabrian branch of the Neapolitan Zurolo family, bore this variant of their surname and arrived in Crotone in the 14th century. Two other branches of the family with the same surname have been traced in Genoa in Liguria and in Giovinazzo in Puglia.
File:Scorcio palazzo Zuroli seu Zurolo e con portale d’ingresso al palazzo con bugne di piperno, secc. XIV-XV, in Via dei Tribunali a Napoli.png|thumb|The historic residence of Zurolo family, also known as Zurlo family, seen, located in Via dei Tribiunali, in Naples (NA), 14th-15th century, with a roadside plaque bearing Vico Zuroli, in fact the Vico and Vicoletto of Zuroli also take their name from the historic residence.
The surname Zurolo in some ancient texts also written in the Zurulus form, now obsolete and its derivation Zurlo could derive from modifications of the Greek name Ζωή. Various authors of the past and modern researchers have noted that Zurolo or Zurlo is the same as the Piscicello or Piscicelli family, whose House used on the shield the aforementioned fish-pisces, of black color called zullo or zurlo or zurolo, then widespread in the sea of Otranto. Anciently transcribed in documents also in Latin in the variants of: Zurulo/Zurolo, Zurulum, Zurulus, Zurolos and Zurlos now disappeared. The surnames Zurolo could be of Greek origin and subsequently Italianised. The surname as the original toponym of a fortified town, today Çorlu. Çorlu, formerly Syrallo-Tzurulos, a locality in the province of Tekirdağ in Turkey. During Roman and Byzantine times, the town was referred to as Tzourolos, or Syrallo, and later became Tiroloi ''. Furthermore, the spelling Zurolus is used for the Latinised form of the name of the episcopal see identified with present-day Çorlu in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. The first known document where the surname of the noble Zurolo family appears transcribed is an Italian will from 1369.
Zuroli is the transcription of the surname Zurolo in the plural, in Naples, a city in southern Italy, between Via dei Tribunali and Via Vicaria Vecchia, in the Pendino district, there are two ancient alleys located in the historic center of the city, from which they take their name from the noble family who also had their noble palace there.
Zurri is a rare and widespread surname in northern Italy, it can mean joy.
Zurro, Żurro s. m. – ancient Tuscan variant of Żurlo: to catch in the act of frolicking, of having fun. It derive from a word of the Sicilian dialect or be more properly a variant of the surname Zurlo. It is an older voice than the one in Zurlo. It is similar to the surname Zumbo.

People

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