mendoza

What Ethnicity Is Mendoza? Mendoza is a Basque surname, also occurring as a place name. Where does the word Mendoza come from? Basque: habitational name from several places in the provinces of Arava and Biscay called Mendoza, named with Basque mendi ‘mountain’ + otz ‘cold’ + the definite article -a. Is Mendoza Italian? The surname