Spanish and Portuguese: from the Marian epithet paz ‘peace’
(Latin pax, genitive pacis): María de la Paz
(Spanish), Maria da Paz (Portuguese). The name was often
assumed, as an approximate translation of the Hebrew personal name
Shelomo, by Jews converted to Christianity.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
60,020
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Paz
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk.
You can find out where the majority of the Paz families were living before
they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival, and destination.
Did the Pazes fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.