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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : from the name of the mountain range between Segovia and Madrid, or rather from a valley that gave its name to the whole mountain range, from Arabic wādī al-ramah. The first element is wādī ‘valley’, ‘riverbed’; the second is unexplained.

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