De%20paz Family History
De%20paz Name 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