Given name & surname · also Spanish

Menaca

Menaca is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Basque.

Original SpanishMeñaca

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Menaca comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Basque.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Meñaca, from Basque Meñaca, from Basque Meña.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Menaca’s family of names

In English usage, Menaca as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Meñaca.

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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