Zaldibar: Last Name Origin and Family Crest
Arms linked to Saldivar and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.
Meaning of the name
Written in a baptism entry or a ship's list, Zaldibar usually leads back to Saldivar. Name scholars give the meaning as âValley of horsesâ.
Records show Zaldibar as one of the forms Saldivar took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: ZaldĂvar. In the Spanish register, Zaldibar appears 106 times as a first surname and 104 times as a second one.
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