Meşină
surname · Latin script
Meşină is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sardinian mesina (“keg, small barrel”), probably a nickname.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 13Kas Messina
- USUnited States1 in 26Kas Messina
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meşină itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
12,717 named Messina, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mesina in PH Philippines, US United States, AR Argentina and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Sardinian mesina (“keg, small barrel”), probably a nickname.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meşină counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,717as Messina | 1 in 26K | 13K | Mesina | 193 |
| PH Philippines | #698 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mesina | 77 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Mesina | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,380as Messina | 1 in 13K | 3.4K | Mesina | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,032as Messina | 1 in 205K | 1K | Mesina | 15 |
| BE Belgium | — | 773as Messina | 1 in 15K | 874 | Mesina | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 606as Messina | 1 in 14K | 606 | — | 2 |
| RE Réunion | #189 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Mesina | 1 |
12,717 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling messina. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meşină mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sardinian mesina (“keg, small barrel”), probably a nickname. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Meşină have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Messina, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Meşină?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,717 people named Messina in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Meşină compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Meşină is the 189th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meşină” — the 189th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.