At a Glance
- Meaning
- Person from Mendoza
- Origin
- Spanish
- Gender
- Unisex
- Pronunciation
- men-doh-SEE-noh
Mendocino is a Spanish unisex name meaning “Person from Mendoza”. It appears in our list of 175+ State-Inspired Baby Names as American as They Come.
Meaning & Origin of Mendocino
Meaning: Person from Mendoza.
Origin: Spanish.
A common claim: from Portuguese merchant navigator Actually: Mendocino is a Spanish demonym honoring the first viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, not a Portuguese navigator.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Mendocino
men-doh-SEE-nohIPA /ˌmɛndoʊˈsiːnoʊ/
Popularity of Mendocino
Mendocino doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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