For those that are looking for infornation about the origen of the Arvelo/Albelo/Alvelo/Arbelo, here are some notes about this name: This name is of topographic origen, meaning that it originated from as family name adquired by the persons of the place where he/she was comming from. It can also be the name given to a person because of the color of the hair or from a region where atmospheric conditions form a color (white) and later is used by the recidents to indicate where they were comming from. The dictionary of family names at the University of Oxfort contains the family name "ARVELO" (one of the several variations of the last name ALBELO. The dictionary points out that this name is Spanish and Portuguese (frequently found in the Canary Islands). The dictionary also point out the probability that is a nick-name given by the Portuguese in conjunction with the Galician word "ARVELA", which is a variant of "ALVE LOA., which is a Specie of bird (MOTICILLA ALBA), categorized this way by its white color.
A point of interes, in reference to this name is that, in the East part of PORTUGAL and close to its middle, and not to far from the city called CASTELO BRANCO, you will find a mountain in the region that extend for several miles.These mountains are known by the name of : "SERRA(SIERRA) of ALVELOS". If recidents from this place emigrated to other regions in EUROPE, they may have use this name to identify themselves from where they were comming from.Therefore, individuals emigrating from England, Portugal, Spain, Italy or any other place to the United States could have used the name ALBELO or a variation of this to name to live in the U.S.A.
Because of the variation in writting the ALBELO name, many question are asked as to what is the proper way to spell this family name. To answear this question we need to go back and look at the origen and meaning of this word, which indicates that the name was taken from the word "ALBA" (Moticilla ALBA). The word "ALBA" means White or whiteness. The word "ALBO" found in Spanish diccionaries indicate that this word is an adjetive meaning, "of snow color, white, pure and clean". Let me bring an example of the "ALVEOLUS" , which looks like "white cotton balls" and are found in the longs of poeple. These white cotton balls" are called Alveolus because of their particular white color. Therefore, the word ALBELO and the color "white" are synonymous for the Spanish word "BLANCO" .