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cerro Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill or ridge, Spanish cerro, from Latin cirrus ‘bristle’, ‘hair’, ‘hackles’, or possibly a nickname for someone with a ridge of spiky hair like an animal’s hackles. Alternatively, it may be a habitational name from a place named with this word (in the sense ‘ridge’), as for example El Cerro in Salamanca province.
  2. Italian: topographic name from cerro ‘turkey oak’, ‘cerris’ (Quercus cerris).

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Distribution of cerro Families in the US in 1920
Number of cerro families
 6-10
 3-5
 1-2
 0
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