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San and Santa are used throughout California in place names. (San Francisco / Santa Bárbara etc.).
This is quite simply the Spanish term for "Saint". San being Male, Santa for the female saint name.
California was pretty much laid out by missionaries from Spain. Each mission was settled about days ride on horseback from the previous one.
As the missionaries settled a region, they took the book of saints day's out and named each settlement after the saint who's celebration day it was in the catholic faith.
Hope this explains well enough, with not too much boredom!
Larry Kemp
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 15y agoits the name of a saint. "San" means saint and "Francisco" is the spanish name for Francis. P.e. Saint Francis of Assisi is in spanish San Francisco de Assisi
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∙ 6y agoSan Francisco is a Spanish word meaning "Saint Francis."
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∙ 12y agoSan means "Saint", as in Saint Francisco, which The City is named after.
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∙ 9y agoWhat does San Fransciso de Asís mean in English or whom was it named after
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