Given name & surname · also Spanish
Oaxaca
“name of a hill”
Oaxaca is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Classical Nahuatl.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Oaxaca goes back to a word meaning “name of a hill.”
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Where it comes from
Oaxaca comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Classical Nahuatl.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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