Mejia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: probably from a religious byname (possibly under Jewish influence), from a vernacular form of Latin, Greek Messias ‘Messiah’, from Hebrew mdslah ‘anointed’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/mɛxia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mejia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 63(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 95
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 156

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈170,000 people, est.

#300 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
463 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 63 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MejiaLatin(measured from records)
МехияCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

probably from a religious byname (possibly under Jewish influence), from a vernacular form of Latin, Greek Messias ‘Messiah’, from Hebrew mdslah ‘anointed’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mejia 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.

Where Mejia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#29≈170,000 est.≈1 in 294108Mejia207
HN Honduras#3≈150,000 est.≈1 in 63—Mejia112
US United States#346104,0571 in 3.2K111KMejia463
SV El Salvador#14≈68,000 est.≈1 in 9574KMejia80
DO Dominican Republic#15≈68,000 est.≈1 in 156—Mejia111
NI Nicaragua#17≈33,000 est.≈1 in 187—Mejia57

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mejia is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Mejía, Mejìa, Méjia, Mejĭa, Méjía

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Mejía

  • Swedish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Mejía, Mëjiã, Mëjiâ

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Finland, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mejía

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Mejía, Mejiã

  • Sinhala surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Philippines, Ecuador

    Also written Mejía

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Mejía

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mejia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, of L, Gk Messias Messiah. Vars.: Mejias, Megia(s). Cogn.: Jewish: Mashia(c)h (a name taken as an expression of hope for the coming of the Messiah). Melber Mendel 363

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In Spanish, of L, Gk Messias Messiah. Megson see Magg Vars.: Mejias, Megia(s). Mehaffy see Duffy Mek see Mick A Mehew see Mayhew Melane see Mullen Mehl see Melber Mehler see Mahler Melaver see Malave Mehnke see Mayne

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Mejía, mostly concentrated in Metro Manila, Nueva Ecija and Rizal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pag, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Mejía, common in Pangasinan and Tarlac

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Elena Arizmendi Mejia, b. 1884Analilia Mejia, b. 1977Elmer Mejia, b. 1978Sammy Mejía, b. 1983Miguel Mejia, b. 1988Brennan Mejia, b. 1990Cristhian Adames, b. 1991Erick Mejia, b. 1994Nadia Mejia, b. 1995Keyla Monterroso Mejia, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Mejia,Dear Mejia, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Mejia,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Mejia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020111K#276
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010104K#300
SV El SalvadorEl Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)—74K#13
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200067K#448
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—108#28
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mejia mean, and where does it come from?
probably from a religious byname (possibly under Jewish influence), from a vernacular form of Latin, Greek Messias ‘Messiah’, from Hebrew mdslah ‘anointed’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Mejia?
A machine transcription gives /mɛxia/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Mejia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 167 thousand people named Mejia in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mejia.
How common is the name Mejia?
In the United States, the national register counted 104,057 people named Mejia in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
How common is Mejia compared with other names?
In Colombia, Mejia is the 29th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Mejia” — the 29th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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