Brief Life History of Oscar
Oscar Paz Bonilla was born on 11 December 1940, in Danlí, El Paraíso, Honduras as the son of Augusto Paz and Maria Ernestina Bonilla. He died on 6 July 1999, in his hometown, at the age of 58.
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World Events (3)
1969
Age 29
1975
Age 35
1978
Age 38
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Luis, Carlos, Mario, Juan, Jorge, Manuel, Miguel, Pedro, Francisco, Jesus, Julio. Portuguese Albano, Joao.
Spanish and Portuguese: from the Christian religious (Marian) epithet paz ‘peace’ (from Latin pax, genitive pacis), forming the names María de la Paz (Spanish) and Maria da Paz (Portuguese). Compare De la Paz .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the name in 1 above at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some Jewish descendants retained the surname that their families had adopted as Roman Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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