Zurlo

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Zurlo is an Italian surname.

Variations

Zullo, Zurla, [1] Zurli,Zurolo, [2] Zuroli, [3] Zurri, [4] Zurro.

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Geographical distribution

As of 2014, among all known bearers of the surname Zurlo there were residents in various countries as follows: Italy (frequency 1:55,902), of United States of America (frequency 1:567,228), of Argentina (frequency 1:87,054), of Brazil (frequency 1:891,976), of Germany (frequency 1:1,518,971), of France (frequency 1:1,509,607), of Belgium (frequency 1:338,137), of Turkey (frequency 1:2,358,225), of Switzerland (frequency 1:315,881) and Uruguay (frequency 1:285,980). [5]

Origins and diffusion

Zullo is mostly present in the Campania region, on average in: Puglia, Molise, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Lazio and less in the rest of the other Italian regions, It also has a lineage in Messina. [6]

Zurla is present in Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, less in other Italian regions. [7]

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. [8] The countries where this surname is generally widespread are: Brazil, Argentina, France and Switzerland, less so in others. [9]

Zurlo is present in Calabria, Campania, Lucania, Molise and Puglia (Brindisi, Lecce, Taranto) and others regions. [10] [11]

Zurolo is the archaic form of the surname Zurlo, it is very widespread in Castellammare di Stabia [12] and in the Neapolitan hinterland area. [13] It seems that the surname is very frequent in southern Italy, however, it also has a strain in the Padua area. [14]

Zuroli is present only in the Basilicata region, with only a few families bearing this surname today. [15]

Zurri is present only in Tuscany, Umbria, Piedmont and Liguria. [16]

Zurro is present in: Puglia, Campania, Sicily, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and on average in other regions. [17]

Partial view of the city of Corlu, formerly called Syrallo-Tzurulos. EmlakKonutFraBroen.jpg
Partial view of the city of Çorlu, formerly called Syrallo-Tzurulos.

Meaning

Zullo could derive from the modified italian name of Giulio. [19]

Zurla could derive from a Tuscan nickname, meaning noise. [20]

Zurlo certainly originates from the Greek 'zurlos' = crazy. n. m. [prob., dialect variant of girlo]. – In the Venetian dialect, spinning top; fig., person of little brain, or reckless, escaped (with these uses fig., also to the feminine zurla [21] ). Żurlo n. m. [der. of żurlare], ancient Tuscan – Ruzzo, lively and noisy cheerfulness, desire to joke, and similar. [22]

The surname Zurolo and its derivation Zurlo could derive from modifications of the Greek name Ζωή (Zoe). Berardo Candida Gonzaga and other authoritative authors of the time asserted that the Zurolo or Zurlo (or Zullo) 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 (from the Greek zωή, zoe, meaning life; tsulos; from the Latin zullus, zurlus, zurulus, meaning to rise, to arise), then widespread in the sea of Otranto (where it possessed fiefs). Anciently transcribed in documents also in Latin in the variants of: Zurulo, [23] 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 (formerly a Roman colony in Thrace), today Çorlu (Turkia). Çorlu, formerly Syrallo-Tzurulos (Zurulo-Zurolo), a locality in the province of Tekirdağ in Turkey. The first known document where the surname of the noble Zurolo family (also called Zurlo in this document and in others) appears transcribed is an Italian will from 1369. [24] [25]

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. [26]

Zurro could derive from a word of the Sicilian dialect or be more properly a variant of the surname Zurlo. [27]

People

Among the famous people with this surname, in chronological order, appear:

Also

Notes

  1. ↑ Staff of TRECCANI. "Zurlo" [Zurlo]. TRECCANI (in Italian). s. m. [prob., dialectal variant of girlo]. – In the Venetian dialect, spinning top; fig., a person of little brain, or reckless, hasty (with these uses fig., also in the feminine zurla). TRECCANI. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  2. ↑ Staff of HistAntArtSI. "Zurlo, famiglia" [Zurlo, family]. HistAntArtSI (in Italian). Retrieved 5 May 2024. Other names: Zurulo, Zurolo
  3. ↑ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "I". Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia[Zurolo House. Origins and development of a feudal family from Southern Italy] (in Italian). p. 21.
  4. ↑ Michele Francipane (November 2005). "Z". Dizionario ragionato dei cognomi italiani [Annotated Dictionary of Italian Surnames] (in Italian). Milan (MI): Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. p. 976. ISBN   8817007641 . Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  5. ↑ Staff of Forebears (2014). "Zurlo surname". Forebears. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Look at the graphs, the spread of the surname Zurlo in Italy and in the rest of the world.
  6. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zullo" [Diffusion of the surname Zullo]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 1220 Zullo families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zullo families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zullo in Italy, from the graph on the page.
  7. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurla" [Distribution of the surname Zurla]. COGNOMIX. There are approximately 119 Zurla families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zurla families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurla in Italy, from the graph on the page.
  8. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurli" [Diffusion of the surname Zurli]. COGNOMIX. There are approximately 178 Zurli families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zurli families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurli in Italy, from the graph on the page.
  9. ↑ Staff of Forebears (2014). "Zurli surname". Look at the graphs, the spread of the surname Zurli in Italy and in the rest of the world. Look at the graphs, the spread of the surname Zurli in Italy and in the rest of the world. Forebears. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  10. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurlo" [Distribution of the surname Zurlo]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are approximately 1193 Zurlo families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Zurlo families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurlo in Italy, from the graph on the page.
  11. ↑ Staff of nomorigine. "Genealogy, meaning and origin of the zurlo surname". nomorigine. Retrieved 5 May 2024. The last name "Zurlo" is of Italian origin. It is a surname that is mainly found in the southern regions of Italy, particularly in the regions of Campania, Calabria, and Apulia. The name may have originated from a nickname or a place name in Italy. Unfortunately, the exact meaning or origin of the name is not well-documented.
  12. ↑ Staff of CODICEINVERSO.IT. "Cognome Zurolo" [Surname Zurolo]. CODICEINVERSO.IT (in Italian). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  13. ↑ Staff of GANINO. "Italian Surnames – Cognomi Italiani – Z, (ZURLO-ZURLO)" [Italian Surnames – Italian Surnames – Z, (ZURLO-ZURLO)]. GANINO (in Italian). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  14. ↑ Staff of HERALDRYS INSTITUTE OF ROME-Araldion Italian D.C.V. Rome. "ZURLO I ZUROLO" [ZURLO I ZUROLO]. HERALDRYS INSTITUTE OF ROME-Araldion Italian D.C.V. Rome (in Italian). Retrieved 5 May 2024. The spread of the surname Zurolo in Italy seems to be mainly widespread in the southern Italy area, but it also has a strong strain in the Padua area, in Veneto.
  15. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zuroli" [Distribution of the Zuroli surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 2 Zuroli families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zuroli families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zuroli in Italy, from the graph on the page.
  16. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurri" [Distribution of the surname Zurri]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are approximately 17 Zurri families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zurri families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurri in Italy, from the graph on the page.
  17. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurro" [Diffusion of the surname Zurro]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 101 Zurro families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zurro families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurro in Italy, from the graph on the page.
  18. ↑ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "I". Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia[Casata Zurolo. Origins and development of a feudal family from Southern Italy] (in Italian). Çorlu, formerly Syrallo-Tzurulos (Zurulo-Zurolo), a town in the province of Tekirdağ in Türkiye. p. 13.
  19. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zullo - Origine del Cognome" [Zullo - Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). It should derive from dialectal modifications of the name Giulio. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
  20. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurla - Origine del Cognome" [Zurla - Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). It could derive from a nickname linked to the Tuscan term zurlo-ciurlo, "whim", but also "noise". Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
  21. ↑ Staff of TRECCANI. "Zurlo" [Zurlo]. TRECCANI (in Italian). S. m. [prob., dialect variant of girlo]. – In the Venetian dialect, spinning top; fig., person of little brain, or reckless, escaped (with these uses fig., also to the feminine zurla). TRECCANI. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  22. ↑ Staff of TRECCANI. "Żurlo" [Żurlo]. TRECCANI (in Italian). żurlo s. m. [der. of żurlare], Tuscan ant. – Ruzzo, lively and boisterous cheerfulness, desire to joke, and similar: to be, to go, to enter into a state of zurlo, to be seized by the desire to joke; to put me into a state of lively desire, or in agitation: since you have put me into a state of zurlo, if I tire you out with writing, say: «be it my fault, because I wrote to him» (Machiavelli). TRECCANI. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  23. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurlo – Origine del Cognome" [Zurlo – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 5 May 2024. The origin of the surname Zurolo, also called Zurlo or Zurulu.
  24. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurlo – Origine del Cognome" [Zurlo – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Traces of these surnames are found in a will from 1369: In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi Anno a nativitate eiusdem millesimo trecentesimo sexagesimo nono Regnante autem Serenissima domina nostra domina Johanna dei gratia Hierusalem et Sicilie Regina ducatus Apulie Principatus Capue Provincie et forcalquerij ac Pedemontis Comitissa. Regnorum vero eius anno bicesimo septimo feliciter. Amen. Die secundo mensis februarii septime Inditionis Neapoli. Nos Georgius Aycardi de Benevento Reginalis Camere ballictus Nicolaus Thorij dicti mancini de casale Sancti Laurentii de Limata publicus ubilibet per totum Regnum Sicilie Reginali aucthoritate notarius et teste infra scripti biri utique licterat, ad hoc specialiter bocati et rogati videlicet dominus Tuccillus Zurulus de Neapoli Miles Reginalis hospitii Senescallus...
  25. ↑ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "I". Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia[Zurolo House. Origins and development of a feudal family from Southern Italy] (in Italian). pp. 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16. From the first half of the 14th century the use of the double surname (Piscicello Zurolo or Zurulo) became widespread for the reorganization of the city seats, wanted by Robert of Anjou (1309–1343), and the Zurolo or Zurulo or Zurlo (or Zullo), also called Zuroli, officially joined the noble Seat of Capuana, in the Piscicelli district, a locality in the province of Tekirdağin Turkey, located south-east of Thrace (from the Greek Θράκη; from the Latin Thracia, former province of the Roman Empire; historical region of the Balkan peninsula divided between Greece and Turkey largely, and Bulgaria for a short stretch), and precisely on the long route of the flat Roman road, between Adrianople and Byzantium-Constantinople. Berardo Candida Gonzaga and other authoritative authors of the time asserted that the Zurolo or Zurlo (or Zullo) is the same as the Piscicello or Piscicelli, whose House used on the shield the aforementioned fish-pisces, of black color called zullo or zurlo or zurolo (from the Greek zωή, zoe, meaning life; tsulos; from the Latin zullus, zurlus, zurulus, meaning to rise, to arise), then spread to the Terra d'Otranto (where it owned fiefdoms). On the other hand, the term Tzurulum derives from the Hunno-Turkish word saola which means to monitor, indicating a fortified village – Tzurulum ingressus castrum muniebat, so much so that in 441 AD, the year of the reign of Theodosius II, emperor of the East from 408 to 450, is often cited in ancient maps and documentary sources of Byzantine historiography (see Procopius of Caesarea, DE ÆDIFICIS, LibroIV), as one of the most important and strategic outposts of the Eastern Roman Empire. There were numerous fortified works in the 4th century, designed and built to stem the advances of the barbarian populations who repeatedly devastated these borderlands. Of the fortified city of Çorlu (formerly Tzurulumo Tzurulos) there still remain traces of its imposing Roman and Byzantine walls (see), remodeled several times until the time of the Palaeologus, the last dynasty of Byzantium which ruled the empire from 1258 to 1453. This family, also to distinguish itself from the original branch, gave itself the double surname of Piscicello Zurolo which it replaced, around the 13th century, definitively – with the descendants of a certain Giovanni Giovannello Piscicello known as Zurolo.
  26. ↑ Staff di Altervista (22 September 2024). "Il vico della famiglia Zuroli" [The alley of the Zuroli family]. Altervista (in Italian). This ancient family originally had its home in the historic center of Naples, in the ancient Forcella district, where today you can still admire the family palace with portal (on Via dei Tribunali) in Gothic style, built between the 14th and 15th centuries, by from which the Vico took its name, Vicoletto dei Zuroli, near the church of Pio Monte della Misericordia. Altervista. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  27. ↑ Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurro - Origine del Cognome" [Zurro - Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). It should derive from a dialect nickname linked to the Sicilian zurru, "uncouth, coarse, rough", or it could constitute a variant of Zurlo. The surname Zurro would seem to be typical of the Gargano, of Sannicandro Garganico (FG) in particular. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025.

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