Otero

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Otero is a Spanish surname, and an occasional given name, derived from the Spanish word for height, and indicating a family history of having come from a geographically high place.[1] The name also reflects association with places in Spain having this name.[1]

People

Surname

Given name

  • Otero Pedrayo (1888–1976), Galician geographer, writer and intellectual

References

  1. ^ a b Richard Donovon Woods, Grace Alvarez-Altman, Spanish surnames in the southwestern United States: a dictionary (1978), p. 102.
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