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Espeleta Surname Meaning

Basque: Castilianized form of Ezpeleta a topographic or habitational name referring to a house named with ezpel ‘box’

+ the collective suffix -eta ‘place or group of’.

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


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