Spanish and Portuguese: from the honorific title Cid (from
Arabic sayyid ‘lord’), borne by Christian overlords with Muslim
vassals, most famously by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043–99), El
Cid. This was early adopted as a personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cid
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