Díaz (surname) explained

Díaz
Meaning:"Son of Diego"
Region:Kingdom of Castile, in Spain
Pronunciation:pronounced as /es/, in Latin America: pronounced as /es/
Variant:Diaz (anglicized), Dias (Portuguese variant)

Díaz is a common surname of Spanish origin with multiple meanings in multiple languages. First found in the Kingdom of Castile, where the name originated in the Visigoth period, the name accounts for about 0.17% of the Spanish population, ranking as the 14th-most frequently found surname in both 1999 and 2004.[1]

Variants and related names

There is minor evidence that Díez may be equivalent to Díaz, in the form of Spanish language listing of most frequent surnames in 1999 Spain.[2] However, a 2008 in-press academic manuscript about Spanish naming in 2004 suggests otherwise, listing statistics for "Díaz" and "Díez" separately.[3] [4] The surname is a cognate with the Portuguese language surname Dias.

Usage

Díaz and the anglicized form Diaz appear to be surnames only, without evidence for use as given names. Use of Diaz may arise through Anglicization of Portuguese language Dias.

Many examples of the surnames Díaz exist among historically notable people as a patronymic of Diego. Among the earliest such examples is El Cid, whose real name was Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, and whose father's given name was Diego.[5]

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 21.5% of all known bearers of the surname Díaz were residents of Mexico (frequency 1:132), 11.4% of Colombia (1:96), 9.1% of Argentina (1:108), 8.0% of Spain (1:134), 7.2% of Venezuela (1:96), 6.7% of the United States (1:1,242), 5.2% of Peru (1:142), 5.0% of Cuba (1:53), 4.6% of Chile (1:87), 3.1% of the Philippines (1:742), 2.9% of the Dominican Republic (1:83), 2.5% of Puerto Rico (1:33), 2.4% of Guatemala (1:155), 2.0% of Honduras (1:100), 1.4% of El Salvador (1:107), 1.3% of Nicaragua (1:103), 1.2% of Ecuador (1:293) and 1.0% of Paraguay (1:161).

In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:134) in the following autonomous communities:

In Puerto Rico, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:33) in the following municipalities:[6]

The following matrix contains available information on the frequency of this surname in various countries across a span of years.

Country1880–18891960–19691990–19992000–2009
Australia2002: 0.008% (rank ?)(c)
New Zealand2002: 0.002% (rank ?)(c)
Spain1999: 0.74% (rank 14)(a)2004: na% (rank 14)(b)
United Kingdom1881: na% (rank 23,037)(c)1998: 0.001% (rank 10,773)(c)
United States1964: 0.047% (rank 335)[7] 1990: 0.084% (rank 99)(d)
1990: 0.014% (rank ?)(c)		2000: 0.18% (rank 73)(d)

Reference codes, see

  1. References
: (a)=OcioTotal 1999, (b)=Mateos & Tucker 2008, (c)=Longley, et al., (d)=United States Census Bureau 1995, (e)=United States Census Bureau 2000

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Notes and References

  1. Mateos & Tucker 2008, OcioTotal 1999
  2. OcioTotal 1999.
  3. Mateos & Tucker 2008.
  4. Díaz as being derived from a Gothic form of the paternal genitive of Dia, as in "Dia's child", or Diag, Diago or Diego (Dixon 1857).
  5. 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
  6. https://forebears.io/surnames/diaz Díaz surname distribution
  7. Rank 16 among Hispanic-Americans (De Platt 1996, pages 15–16)

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