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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, valle, from Latin vallis (see Valle).
  • Possibly also an altered spelling of northern French Delvallée, also a topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, from French vallée ‘valley’.

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