Lizana Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

Wikidata records Lizana as a Spanish family name. In the 2010 US Census, 793 Americans gave Lizana as their last name (rank 29,693). Spain's INE counts 1,869 residents with Lizana as first surname and 1,818 with it as second. Spaniards carry two surnames, one from each parent, which is why Lizana is counted in both positions. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Lizana, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Here is a quick, sourced look at the Lizana surname.

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Lizana, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. Get the complete Lizana report, with a museum-style coat of arms.