Guadalupe Family History

Spanish: from the female personal name Guadalupe, a Marian name derived from the place so named in Cáceres province. The place name is named as ‘the valley of the wolves’, from Arabic wadi ‘valley’, ‘riverbed’ + Latin lupi ‘wolves’. Guadalupe is the site of a Hieronymite convent founded in the 14th century, which possesses a famous image of the Virgin Mary. In some cases, the surname may have arisen as a habitational name from the same place

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press