The Vaz surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,317 people carried this name — #13,190 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 126,600 people counted. That is up 30% from 1,789 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Vaz surname
A surname originating as a patronymic.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Vaz» (Portuguese), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 847 people named Vaz 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 mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 363 people named Vaz.
Most of them — 235 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 44 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
88 people named Vaz live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
23 people named Vaz is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Vaz in American newspapers,
1909–1914.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 17,501 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Vaz.
- Vautier 213 · U.S. census
- Vautour 382 · U.S. census
- Vautrin 276 · U.S. census
- Vaux 423 · U.S. census
- Vavasseur 113 · U.S. census
- Vay 376 · U.S. census
- Vazquez 138,322 · U.S. census
- Veber 182 · U.S. census
- Vecchi 394 · U.S. census
- Vecchio 2,909 · U.S. census
- Vecchioni 164 · U.S. census
- Vedrine 220 · U.S. census
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