Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe