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Indigenous surname · Maya

Dzul

"foreigner, gentleman"

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Where it comes from

Yucatec dzul (foreigner; later, a gentleman or Spaniard)

Meaning of the surname Dzul

Dzul is a Maya surname of the indigenous type meaning "foreigner, gentleman". It is a regional surname. About 33,000 people 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 Dzul appears as either half of a pair: Dzul García, López Dzul. Read how the two-surname system works.

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