Mendoza Surname Meaning & Origin (Basque)

Meaning and formation

Mendoza is usually interpreted as “cold mountain” in Basque. Its components are mendi, “mountain”, hotz, “cold”, and the article -a. The Basque surname passed through Spanish before its borrowing into Tagalog and Cebuano. The name is also associated with the village of Mendoza in the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country. Philippine bearers include the filmmaker Brillante Mendoza and the actress and television presenter Maine Mendoza. Brillante won the directing prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 for Kinatay, bringing international recognition to a Philippine bearer of the surname.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Tagalog: /menˈdoza/ · /menˈdosa/ · Wiktionary ↗
• Cebuano: /menˈdosa/ · Wiktionary ↗
• Spanish: /menˈdoθa/ · /menˈdosa/ · Wiktionary ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Mendoza has 44 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts