Zeballos Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Spellings drift, and Zeballos is where Ceballos drifted for some families. In origin, the name means “From Ceballos / onion grounds”.

Spelling and variants

Spelled with “z” instead of “c”, Zeballos shows how the same name was heard and written differently. You may also find the name written Cevallos.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Zeballos surname had 461 bearers. Hispanic and Latino Americans made up 90% of the total. Spain's INE counts 693 residents with Zeballos as first surname and 708 with it as second.

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