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This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,
Lizarraga Name Meaning and History
Basque: habitational name from any of three places called Lizarraga, in Navarra and Alava and Guipuzcoa provinces, which are named from Basque lizarr (or le(i)zar) ‘ash tree’ + the locative suffix -aga.
hope this helps.

sorry e l i have no idea this question might as well have been in spanish its hard to answer

It comes from Spain from a place called:
"EL PAIS VASCO".

It means a place where a particular kind
of tree grows ~ the tree is a "LIZAR" which is an ash tree