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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Castilianized form of Basque Aretxuloeta, a topographic name meaning ‘oak hollow’, from aretx, Biscayan variant of (h)artiz ‘oak’ + zulo ‘hole’, ‘hollow’ + -eta ‘place or group of’.

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