Salvatierra Family History
Salvatierra Name Meaning
Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called Salvatierra (literally ‘save land’ denoting a place of strategic importance). Aragonese and Galician: Castilianized form of habitational names from any of the places called Salvaterra in Galicia and Salbatierra in Aragon (Spain) with identic meaning as 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022