First name origins & meanings:
- Spanish: River of black stones
- Arabic: Wolf valley
First name variations: Guadalup, Guadelupe, Guadlupe, Guadulupe, Gudalupe, Guadalope Last name origin & meaning: Spanish: from the female personal name Guadalupe, a Marian
name derived from the place so named in Cáceres province. The place
name is named as ‘the valley of the wolves’, from Arabic
wādī ‘valley’, ‘riverbed’ + Latin lupi
‘wolves’. Guadalupe is the site of a Hieronymite convent founded in
the 14th century, which possesses a famous image of the Virgin
Mary. In some cases, the surname may have arisen as a habitational
name from the same place This name appears in the following lists:
Lakes and Rivers
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