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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Canary Islands) : from the plural of callero, an unrecorded word which appears to derive from calle ‘street’ and is probably a topographic name meaning ‘living near the street’, ‘neighbour’, or alternatively, it could be a derivative of callos ‘innards’.

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