Quijada

Borrowed from Spanish Quijada.

Quijada (plural Quijadas)

1. A surname from Spanish.
   • 2012 December 24, Joshua Foer, “Utopian for Beginners”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 July 2018:

     “Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn’t mean they’re optimal,” John Quijada, a fifty-three-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, told me. In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language.” Written like a linguistics textbook, the fourteen-page Web site ran to almost a hundred and sixty thousand words. It documented the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of a language that Quijada had spent three decades inventing in his spare time.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Quijada is the 6856^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4908 individuals. Quijada is most common among Hispanic/Latino (93.66%) individuals.

• IPA^(key): /kiˈxada/ [kiˈxa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: Qui‧ja‧da

Quijada m or f by sense

1. a surname