Díaz

Díaz
PronunciationSpanish: [ˈdiaθ], in Latin America: [ˈdias]
Origin
Meaning"Son of Diego"
Region of originKingdom of Castile, in Spain
Other names
Variant formsDiaz (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.

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. However, a 2008 in-press academic manuscript about Spanish naming in 2004 suggests otherwise, listing statistics for "Díaz" and "Díez" separately. 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.[full citation needed]

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:

  1. Canary Islands (1:53)
  2. Asturias (1:54)
  3. Extremadura (1:85)
  4. Cantabria (1:89)
  5. Castilla-La Mancha (1:97)
  6. Galicia (1:112)
  7. Andalusia (1:114)
  8. Community of Madrid (1:121)

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

  1. Manatí (1:14)
  2. Peñuelas (1:16)
  3. Arecibo (1:16)
  4. Morovis (1:16)
  5. Yauco (1:17)
  6. Barceloneta (1:17)
  7. Guayanilla (1:17)
  8. Florida (1:17)
  9. Ponce (1:19)
  10. Hatillo (1:19)
  11. Isabela (1:19)
  12. Utuado (1:20)
  13. Cabo Rojo (1:20)
  14. Ciales (1:21)
  15. Lares (1:21)
  16. Naranjito (1:21)
  17. Camuy (1:22)
  18. Quebradillas (1:22)
  19. Rincón (1:22)
  20. Canóvanas (1:22)
  21. Aguadilla (1:23)
  22. San Juan (1:23)
  23. Loíza (1:24)
  24. Juana Díaz (1:25)
  25. Río Grande (1:25)
  26. Trujillo Alto (1:28)

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)1990: 0.084% (rank 99)(d)
1990: 0.014% (rank ?)(c)		2000: 0.18% (rank 73)(d)

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

Notable people

Arts and entertainment

Politics and military

  • Alonso Diaz Moreno (1526–1602), Spanish conquistador founder of Valencia, Venezuela
  • Antoni Gutiérrez Díaz (1929–2006), Catalan (Spain) physician and politician
  • Antonio Diaz (Filipino politician) (1927–2011), politician in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
  • Armando Diaz (1861–1928), Italian General and a Marshal of Italy during World War I (1914–1918)
  • Domingo Díaz, Venezuelan militar
  • Domingo Díaz Arosemena (1875–1949), Panamanian politician, president from 1948 to 1949
  • Edwige Diaz (born 1987), French politician
  • Elimar Díaz (born 1989), Venezuelan politician
  • Fernando Díaz (marino) [es], Venezuelan military
  • Héctor A. Díaz, American politician in Connecticut
  • Joaquín Díaz de Vivar (1907–2002), Argentine lawyer and politician, also a descendant of El Cid (Rodrigo de Diaz Vivar, 1043–1099)
  • José Díaz, (1895–1942), Spanish Communist and trade unionist, involved in the Spanish Civil War. 1936–1939
  • José Domingo Díaz (1772–1834), Venezuelan journalist, physician and polítician
  • José E. Díaz (1833–1867), Paraguayan general, hero of the Paraguayan War
  • María Arcelia Díaz (1896 - 1939), Mexican union organizer
  • Mario Díaz-Balart (born 1961), American politician
  • Miguel Díaz-Canel (born 1960), Cuban politician, engineer, first secretary of the Communist Party and leader of Cuba since 2021
  • Pedro Díaz de Vivar (1740–1820), Royal Spanish soldier and official, also a descendant of El Cid (Rodrigo de Diaz Vivar, 1043–1099)
  • Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915), Mexican soldier, politician, dictator who served seven terms as President of Mexico in late 19th and early 20th century, following the Imperial French (by Emperor Napoleon III) intervention in Mexico with Emperor Maximilian, 1863–1866
  • Rafael Díaz-Balart (1926–2005), Cuban politician and anti-Castro organizer
  • Ramón Díaz (1926–2017), Uruguayan lawyer, economist and journalist, Chairman of the Central Bank
  • Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043–1099), better known as El Cid, or Rodrigo, Castilian (Spain ) nobleman and military leader in medieval Spain
  • Adam Perez Diaz (1909–2010), the first Hispanic elected to the Phoenix City Council in Arizona and also the first Hispanic to serve as Phoenix's Vice-Mayor
  • José Antonio Pérez Diaz (1922–2005), Venezuelan politician

Sports

Others

Fictional characters

See also

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. ↑ Díaz surname distribution
  7. ↑ Rank 16 among Hispanic-Americans (De Platt 1996, pages 15–16)
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