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The 21st most prevalent Hispanic surname in the USA. The surname Garza was brought to Mexico by Marcos Alonso De La Garza. He was born in Lepe.Huelva, Spain in the 1500's. He went to Monterrey, Mexico and married Catalina Martinez Guajardo, whom he later divorced and later married Juana De Trevino (1540). They had a son, Blas Garza who married Beatriz Gonzalez Hidalgo and had 17 Children of his own.
The Garza ancestors were Jews who spoke Arabic and settled in spain. Although the spread of Jews into Europe is most commonly associated with the Diaspora which ensued from the Roman conquest of Judea, emigration from Judea into the greater Roman Mediterranean area antedated the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans under Titus.