Given name & surname · also Spanish

Valdes

Valdes is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Asturian.

Original SpanishValdés

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Valdes comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Asturian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In English usage, Valdes as a surname developed from Valdés.

Valdes’s family of names

In English usage, Valdes as a surname developed from the Asturian form Valdés. In Greek usage, Valdes as a surname is a transliteration of Βάλδες. In English usage, Valdes as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Asturian form Valdés.

Walk Valdes’s family in the name graph

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Spellings & scripts 2

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Across languages 5

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