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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : from a variant of the medieval nickname Calvo ‘bald’ (from Latin calvus).
  • Spanish : habitational name from any of various minor places. They may have been named from the same word as in 1, referring to a bare and treeless appearance, or alternatively from Late Latin cova ‘hollow’.

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