The guadalupe Surname
guadalupe Name Meaning and History
Spanish: from the female personal name Guadalupe, a Marian
name derived from the place so named in Cáceres province. The place
name is named as ‘the valley of the wolves’, from Arabic
wadi ‘valley’, ‘riverbed’ + Latin lupi
‘wolves’. Guadalupe is the site of a Hieronymite convent founded in
the 14th century, which possesses a famous image of the Virgin
Mary. In some cases, the surname may have arisen as a habitational
name from the same place
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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