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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Galician : habitational name from any of the places in Galicia, Santander, and Cáceres named Rivero, from ribero ‘bank’, ‘shore’ (Late Latin riparium, a derivative of ripa ‘bank’).

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