Why, in Spanish, is saint sometimes San and sometimes Santa for naming cities?

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Why, in Spanish, is saint sometimes San and sometimes Santa for naming cities? - Lemmy.ca

Lemmy

It’s because nouns in Spanish carry gender! Which is crazy but it works.

“San Francisco” → Francisco is a male name.

“Santa Bárbara” → Baŕbara is a female name.

So is there something we haven’t been told about Claus / Klaus?
Well, Santa Claus doesn’t operate in Spain so they got confused somewhere when translating the name