Frequency: (138)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Ukrainian: topographic name for someone who lived ‘over the mountain’, from za ‘beyond’, ‘on the other side of’ + hora ‘hill’ + the diminutive suffix -ik.
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