Paz

At the 2020 census, 27,105 Americans bore the surname Paz — 1,268th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,000.

By the numbers

People: 27,105
Rank: 1,268th
How common: 1 in 11,000
Per 100,000: 9.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Paz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 88.8%
White, not Hispanic 7.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Paz

Octavio Paz (1914–1998)Mexican writer, poet an diplomat
Nico Paz (born 2004)Argentine-Spanish footballer
Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907–2001)45th President of Bolivia
Rodrigo Paz (born 1967)President of Bolivia
Marc Guiu Paz (born 2006)Spanish association football player
Jaime Paz Zamora (born 1939)President of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993
Valentín Paz-Andrade (1898–1987)Spanish writer and politician
Pablo Paz (born 1973)Argentine footballer

People named Paz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Paz has been given to 847 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.