| ![Show Contents]() Zaldivar History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Early Origins of the Zaldivar familyThe surname Zaldivar was first found in the Basque region of Spain where the name is a Castilianized variant of Basque Zaldibar, a habitational name from a place so named in Biscay province. The place name is of uncertain derivation. It may be from zaldu ‘wood’, ‘copse’ or from zaldi ‘horse’ + ibar ‘water meadow’, ‘fertile plain’. Zaldibar can be translated from Basque as "horse valley", from zaldi (horse) and ibar (valley). Early History of the Zaldivar familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Zaldivar research. Another 83 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1514, 1533, 1539, 1540, 1542, 1570, 1573, 1598, 1599 and 1650 are included under the topic Early Zaldivar History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Zaldivar Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Zaldivar, Zaldibar, Saldivar and others. Early Notables of the Zaldivar familyProminent among bearers of the family name at this time was Juan de Zaldívar (1514-1570) a Spanish official and explorer in New Spain. He was born near Vitoria in Basque Country, Spain and emigrated to New Spain in 1533. His father was Ruy Díaz de Zaldívar Juan served as a city councillor of Guadalajara from 1539 to 1570 and explored Northern New Spain.Juan de Zaldívar (c. 1570-1598), was a Spanish soldier and explorer. He was an early colonizer of...
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Zaldivar Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Juan De Zaldivar, who landed in Mexico in 1882 1
| Contemporary Notables of the name Zaldivar (post 1700) | + |
- Vicente de Zaldívar (1573-1650), Spanish soldier and explorer in New Mexico
- Juan de Zaldívar (1514-1570), Spanish official and explorer in New Spain
- Roberto Zaldivar, Argentian doctor of ophthalmology and a refractive surgeon
- Rafael Zaldívar (1834-1903), President of El Salvador from 1 May 1876 until 21 June 1885, and later a diplomat, he studied in medicine in Europe and became a physician
- Juan Carlos Zaldívar, Cuban filmmaker and video artist
- Ángel Zaldívar Caviedes (b. 1994), Mexican professional footballer
- José Andrés Rafael Zaldívar Larraín (b. 1936), known as El Chico Zaldívar "Short Zaldívar", prominent Chilean politician
- Ambrosio Zaldívar, Cuban Paralympic athlete, gold medalist at the 1996 Paralympics
- Miguel Adolfo Gerardo Zaldívar Larraín (b. 1943), Chilean politician and lawyer
- Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (1901-1973), Cuban Soldier, president, and dictator who twice ruled Cuba
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
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