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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from Valderas in León province, so named as valle de eras ‘valley of eras’; era, from Latin area, denoted variously, an area of firm flat land used as a threshing floor, a clearing, or a fertile patch.

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