The calderon Surname
calderon Name Meaning and History
Spanish (Calderón): topographic name from an augmentative
of caldera ‘basin’, ‘crater’, ‘hollow’, a common element of
stream and mountain names, or a habitational name from a place named
with this word, as for example Calderón in Valencia
province. Alternatively, it may be a metonymic occupational name from
the same word in the sense ‘kettle’, ‘cauldron’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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