Valero Family History
Valero Surname Meaning
Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from a place called Valero in Salamanca province.
Italian: from the personal name Valero, a variant of Valerio.
Jewish (Sephardic): also an adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism.
After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the surname their families used as Catholics.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
