Lopaz Family Crest & Name History

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Lopaz, so the heraldry linked to López is a starting point, not an automatic right.

The meaning behind Lopaz

The last name Lopaz is another written form of López, a well-known Spanish family name. The name is generally explained as “The son of Lope or Lupe (wolf)”.

Before spelling was fixed, López was also written Lopaz. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The 2010 census count for Lopaz in the United States was 209, good for rank 88,685. Of these, 67% identified as Hispanic or Latino. Lopaz sounds close to La Paz, so it can help to search both.

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