The Paiz surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,347 people carried this name — #7,638 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 68,000 people counted. That is up 20% from 3,619 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 3,549 people named Paiz live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 1,600
Entre Ríos 797
Santa Fe 244
Corrientes 139
Córdoba 125
City of Buenos Aires 117
Santiago del Estero 103
Chaco 66

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Paiz in American newspapers,
1913.

Newspaper page from Atlanta Georgian carrying the name Paiz
Atlanta Georgian 1913-01-02

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

Who carried it

People named Paiz,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Anselmo Paiz d. 1875 · lawyer

Wikidata (CC0) · 5 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Paiz,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States131 records

131 records of the Paiz name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 57
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 41
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 31
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Alfredo P. Paiz

    Born 1921 in New Mexico. Enlisted 1942 at Santa Fe; farm hand from Mora County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Scared Heart Cemetery, Watrous, New Mexico.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Maria Paiz

    Arrived at Baltimore in 1883 aboard the America from Bremen, aged 20; farmer. From Austria; bound for Baltimore.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  3. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Jerry Paiz

    Born 1947; from Norwalk, California. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1967 in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)

Showing 3 of 131 records for Paiz in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).

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