Vasquez surname meaning

Vasquez is the accentless English-language spelling of Vásquez, a Galician-Spanish patronymic meaning “son of Vasco.” Vasco is connected with the older Iberian personal name Velasco, but its deeper pre-Roman meaning is uncertain; the surname’s descent structure is much firmer than that root. Vásquez, Vázquez, Vasques, and Vazquez reflect accents, regional orthography, and Portuguese or Spanish recordkeeping. The name spread widely through the Spanish-speaking world, and US documents often omit diacritics. A spelling variant does not by itself identify whether a family came from Galicia or another later settlement.