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Indigenous surname · Maya

Dzib

"writing"

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DSEEB

Where it comes from

Yucatec dzib (to write, to paint)

Meaning of the surname Dzib

Dzib is a Maya surname of the indigenous type meaning "writing". It is a regional surname. Common in Yucatán.

Maya surnames from Yucatán and Campeche (Pech, Canul, Chan, Ek, May, Uc, Poot, Tun) and Nahuatl surnames from central Mexico. Yucatán is the one region of Mexico where indigenous surnames dominate the top of the list.

In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Dzib appears as either half of a pair: Dzib García, López Dzib. Read how the two-surname system works.

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