About the Dâmaso Surname

Records tie Dâmaso closely to Damasio. At root, the name means “From Damasus”. Records show Dâmaso as one of the forms Damasio took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

In the 2010 US Census, 818 Americans gave Dâmaso as their last name (rank 29,019). Hispanic and Latino Americans made up 43% of the total. In the Spanish register, Dâmaso appears 708 times as a first surname and 784 times as a second one.

Arms linked to Damasio and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Dâmaso family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.