Cid Family History
Cid Name Meaning
Spanish and Portuguese: from the honorific title Cid (from Arabic sayyid ‘lord’) borne by Christian overlords with Muslim vassals most famously by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043–99) El Cid. This was early adopted as a personal name. Compare Spanish Del Cid .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022