What's in a name?

I know a lot of these names weren't chosen by the animators of MCoG, but their meanings are still interesting, sometimes fitting, and often hilarious.

NAME	ORIGIN	MEANING
Esteban	Spanish	Crowned in victory. Variant of Stephen.
Zia	Arabic/Hebrew/Latin	Light; splendor/A kind of grain or Grain/To tremble
Tao	Chinese	Peach, symbol of long life
Mendoza	Basque and Central Spain	Frigid mountain
Pedro	Spanish	A rock. Form of Peter.
Sancho	Spanish	Saint
Gomez	All Spain 1611	Son of Gome (archaic name). Gome was a kind of bulrush “Grom” in the 16th century took the place of an older gome, a common old Teutonic word meaning “man,” and connected with the Latin homo. The Old English word was brydguma, later bride gome. The word survives in the German Brautigam.
Gaspar/Gaspard	French/Spanish	French form of Caspar/Treasure
Pizarro	Basque Estremadura, Central Spain 1699	Slate
Marinche/Malinche also known as Marina & Malinalli	Latin/Central Spain Nahuatl	Pertaining to the sea or shore line Marina became Malintzin (the Nahuatl suffix "-tzin" denotes respect). Cortés was known as Malintzin-é, because the indigenous peoples had trouble pronouncing the Spanish r, so Cortés and Malintzin were know by almost the same name. Then, attempting to pronounce this Nahuatl name, Spanish-speakers rendered the soft Nahuatl tzin-é sound as ch; the result was Malinche. Malinalli is Nahuatl for one of the 20 days of the Mexicatl month, as well as for a kind of grass that can be used to make rope.
Fernando/Hernando	Spanish/German	Adventurer
Yupanqui	Quechua	Unforgettable
Apo/Apu	Quechua	Mountain god in southern Andes; connotes power.
Kuraca/Curaca	Quechua	Chief, headman.
Omoru - Amaru?	Quechua	Andean symbol connoting relationship, alliance; often appears as a snake or serpent. *
Paula - Palla?	Quechua	Inca noblewoman or older woman.