Cerro Family History

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.

It may also be a habitational name from a place called with this word (in the sense ‘ridge’) as for example El Cerro in Salamanca province.

Italian: topographic name from cerro ‘turkey oak cerris (Quercus cerris)’.