Otero Family History
Otero Name Meaning
Spanish: habitational name from any of various places so called from Spanish otero ‘height hill’ (from Late Latin altarium a derivative of altus ‘high’). Galician and Asturian-Leonese: Castilianized form of a habitational name from the placenames Outeiro and Uteru.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022