Frequency: (458)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Altered form of Polish Zabrzyski (topographic name for someone who lived ‘beyond the birch tree’, from Polish za ‘beyond’ + brzezie (brzoza) ‘birch tree’) or Zabrzeski (habitational name from a place called Zabrzeg, named with za ‘beyond’ + brzeg ‘bank’).
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
