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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from any of various places so called, from Spanish otero ‘height’, ‘hill’ (Late Latin altarium, a derivative of altus ‘high’)
  • Spanish : Castilianized form of the common Galician and Asturian-Leonese place names Outeiro and Uteru.

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