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the surname

Azzopardi is a rare Italian surname of Lombardic origin, naturalized in Malta and to a lesser extent in Greece and France.

The name is documented in Malta in the forms Azupardu, Azuparda (in the 1419 militia list), Aczupard, Zupard (1480 militia list), Azzupard, Azzoppardo, Azzopardo, Azzopardi, Azzoppardi, Zoppardo, Zopardo (in the Status animarum – church census – of 1687). It still occurs in Northern Italy in the form Azzopardo (mainly in the Julian Venetia), in Sicily in the forms Zuppardo and Zuppardi, and in Corfu as Atsopárdis (Ατσοπάρδης).

It derives from a combination of the Italian names of Lombardic origin Azzo, meaning 'noble', and Pardo, originally the name of a Germanic tribe (the Bardi); Surnames including Azzo are likely related to the Germanic hadu ('war, battle'), or to atha, atta ('father'). An alternative, disreputed etymology considered the name derived from the Greek (σόι, 'race') and (πάρδος, 'panther'), as "fighter of the Saracens" – often referred to as the "Panther race". Azzopardi is sometimes listed among the names of the Jewish Italkim community, however there are few sources to support this, with a supposed etymology from the word As the name is attested (as Azupardu) in Malta's Militia list as early as 1419–1420, before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Portugal and Malta, it is unlikely that its etymology may be related to According to Godfrey Wettinger, "Some would regard Azzopardi as ethnic, associating it with the word Sephardic referring to an Oriental Jew, but the separate existence of Accio and Pardo as surnames in the twelfth century counsels caution in reaching premature conclusions." The name was introduced in Northern Italy by one or more Christian settlers from Sicily some time between the 13th and the 15th century, as attested in the name Ogerius Açopardus, borne by a Genoese notary of the 13th century.