Garmendia

Garmendia is the surname of a noble family of the Basque Country region of Guipuzcoa, in Spain. The surname means "the volcano" or "the fire mountain" (gar 'fire', mendi 'mountain'), after Garmendia de Iraurgui, later known as Salvatierra de Iraurgui, later the site of the cities of Azpeitia and Azkoitia.