Mena (also: Spanish: de Mena, Basque: Menaca) is a Spanish surname that originates as both a Basque [1] [2] [3] [4] and Spanish Sephardic [5] [6] surname.
It is also a given name, Mena. The Meena tribe of India is also spelled as Mena.
Found in the valley of Mena ( Alava, which today is Burgos), with branches in Bilbao and in Dima ( Biscay) and it appears to have also moved from there into Navarre; regions now part of Spain. It appears to mean mineral or a vein of mineral deposits, however at least one author, Lopez Mendizabal, holds that its meaning is pastoral. A variant of the surname is Menaca, with the '-ka' suffix representing "place of", as in "place of Mena", equivalent to the Spanish "de Mena". [2]
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