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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese, Galician and Spanish : possibly from a byname formed with velo ‘veil’ or in some cases perhaps from Galician belo ‘beautiful’.
  • Hungarian (Vélő) : nickname for a thoughtful or intelligent person, from a derivative of vélni ‘to think’.

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