Del Valle
A Spanish and Hispanic surname meaning “of the valley,” originally used for someone from a place called Valle or who lived in a valley.
The #3,033 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 26,129 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Del Valle is a Spanish surname built from de el (contracted to del, meaning “of the”) and valle, “valley.” In origin it was typically a locational name, identifying someone who came from or lived near a valley, or from a settlement named Valle. The deeper root of valle goes back to Latin vallis, “valley.”
History
Surnames of this type became fixed in Spain and later spread widely across the Spanish-speaking world. Del Valle is found in Spain and throughout Latin America, and it also appears in the United States through Hispanic and Latino migration. In some cases it may also have been adopted as a toponymic name from estates or places called Valle or Del Valle.
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Fun fact
Because del is a preposition, the surname is often written as two words in Spanish, but it is also commonly found as the single-word form Delvalle in English-language records.