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De Paz Surname Meaning

Spanish and Galician: variant of De la Paz or in some cases a habitational name with the preposition de ‘from’ for someone from Paz in Lugo province Galicia.

Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism.

After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


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