Entry № 6774 · Basque origin

Mencía Mencía — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ men-THEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Basque
Meaning
"Medieval Castilian (Lopez de Padilla)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "medieval castilian (lopez de padilla)".

Mencía is from the Basque mendi (mountain). Mencía López de Haro (c. 1215-1270) was the Castilian noblewoman who became Queen of Portugal through her marriage to Sancho II. The name was widely used among medieval Castilian nobility.

Medieval Castilian. Queen of Portugal through Sancho II.

The name in its native script.

Mencía
Transliteration
Mencía
Pronunciation
/ mənˈθiː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mencía stands.

Mencía does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mencías before her.

Real people
Mencía López de Haro
Queen of Portugal.
c. 1215 – 1270
In fiction
Mencía
Featured in Tirso de Molina.

Names connected to Mencía.

The number behind Mencía.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mencía reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.