Vallo Family History

Hungarian: from Hungarian valló either in the sense ‘person who confesses or gives evidence’ (from vallani ‘to confess’) or in the older sense ‘shepherd’. Italian: habitational name from any of several places called Vallo. Compare Lo Vallo.

Galician: habitational name from any of the four places in Galicia (Spain) called Vallo. Finnish: habitational name from farms so named in the Torne Valley presumably from an ancient Germanic personal name such as Wallo (based on Old High German waltan ‘to rule’) but Saami origin is also possible.

This standard Finnish variant is rare in the US where the surname is mostly spelled Wallo.