Pazmiño

The Pazmiño family
In a field of sable, a golden tower, surmounted by a golden star.
Ethnicity	Judaeo-converso Hispanic1
Current region	Overwhelmingly Ecuador. Much lesser extent Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Spain, United States and others.
Earlier spellings	Paz Miño, de Paz Miño, de Pazmiño, de Paz y Miño, Pazimyño.
Place of origin	Quito, Ecuador.
Connected families	Paz y Miño, Pasmiño, Pazminio, Pazimiño, Paziminio, Pasiminio, Pasminio, Pasimiño, Pazymiño, Pazmino, Paz y Mino, Paz-y-Mino, Pasmino, Pazimino, Pasimino, Pazymino.
Distinctions	Extremaduran hidalgo (nobility).
Name origin and meaning	Peace [and] Cinnabar-Red.
[1] Originally a Sephardi Jewish family from Llerena, Spain that converted to Catholicism in the 15th century, relocating to colonial Ecuador, and assimilating as members of the Hispanic population

Llerena, Spain
Llerena, Spain Location of Llerena within Spain
Coordinates: 38°14′21″N 6°01′07″W / 38.23917°N 6.01861°W / 38.23917; -6.01861

Pazmiño (Spanish: [pasˈmiɲo] or [paθˈmiɲo]) is a Spanish language surname of Sephardi judaeo-converso origin, and originating in its present-day form in what is today Ecuador, formerly the Royal Audience of Quito.

The surname is carried by the descendants of members of a family of Sephardi Jews from Llerena, Spain that converted to Catholicism in the late 15th century, at the dawn of the Spanish Inquisition. Sephardi Jewish converts to Catholicism have throughout time been variously termed anusim, conversos and marranos, each with differing connotations, the latter being pejorative.

In the early 16th century, during the first decades of Spanish colonization of South America, the family relocated to colonial Ecuador, along with other Sephardi Jewish converts to Catholicism whose real ethnicity was obscured and hidden from the colonial authorities.

In the last couple of centuries, persons of this lineage have since migrated out of Ecuador into neighboring countries, particularly Colombia, but also Peru. Some have ventured further afield around Latin America, including Chile and Panama. Others yet have more recently migrated to the United States and Australia.