Guevara surname meaning

Guevara is a Spanish habitational surname from Guevara in Álava, in the Basque Country. The spelling appears in forms such as Gebara and Guebara as it moved between Basque and Spanish writing traditions. Surname references often give a broad landscape gloss such as prominent or conspicuous, but the exact older Basque analysis is less secure than the locality itself. The catalog therefore treats place as the surname’s type and high confidence as applying to the habitational origin, not to one universal translation of the ancient place-name.