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Guadalajara Family History

Guadalajara Surname Meaning

Spanish: habitational name from Guadalajara in Castile named with Arabic wādī-al-ḥijāra ‘river of the stones’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


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