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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (De la Paz) : patronymic from the second element of a personal name formed with the religious suffix de la Paz, from paz ‘peace’ (from Latin pax). Originally it was characteristically adopted by Jewish converts to Christianity, as a translation of Hebrew shalom.

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