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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Galician : habitational name from any of several places called Escalera, for example in Lugo, Guadalajara, and Málaga, from escalera ‘stairs’, ‘ladder’, probably denoting in some cases a terraced slope.

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