MEANING & HISTORY
What does Ma. Paz mean?
The source form Ma. Paz remains unchanged.
A primary UNAM-hosted table records Ma. as a conventional abbreviation of María. Under that conditional reading, Paz is Spanish peace devotional name, with an independent Hebrew gold name branch. This explains a documented abbreviation tradition and the second name’s separate history, without asserting the specific bearer’s registered expansion or creating a combined sentence meaning.
Maria’s ultimate root remains debated.
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Parts of this name
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Names in this collection
- Maan♀Tagalog familiar compound-name form; Dutch Herman form also exists
- Maegan♀Variant of Megan, a Margaret-family form
- Maika♀Variant of Maike, a Maria familiar form
- Maila♀Finnish familiar form of Maria; other accounts exist
- Maja♀Maria familiar form and independently documented May-name routes
- Manman♂Repeated familiar form with Manuel, Manny, Emman, or Norman bases
- Mara♀Bitter in Hebrew, or a Maria/Tamara short form
- Marga♀Margaret-family short form; pearl in the older root
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 1 elected-candidate records ·
MA. PAZ
· CSV row 3,191 · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- UNAM thesis appendix — abbreviations and familiar names (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name — Maria (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name — Mary (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name — Paz (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name — Paz, Hebrew (opens in a new tab)