Mezà
surname · Latin script
Mezà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Meza, a toponymic surname from Old Spanish meza (“plateau, mesa”). Compare Modern Spanish mesa (“table, mesa”).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 569(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 744
- ARArgentina1 in 953
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 569 (inferred from the name graph)
53,230 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meza in US United States, AR Argentina, EC Ecuador and 2 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)
- SpanishMeza(measured from records)
- Old Spanishmeza“plateau“plateau, mesa”(measured from records)
From Spanish Meza, a toponymic surname from Old Spanish meza (“plateau, mesa”). Compare Modern Spanish mesa (“table, mesa”).
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mezà 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 | — | 53,230 | 1 in 6.2K | 53K | Meza | 85 |
| AR Argentina | — | 47,699 | 1 in 953 | 48K | Meza | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 22,735 | 1 in 744 | 23K | Meza | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8,952 | 1 in 569 | 9K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 5,227 | 1 in 9.6K | 5.2K | Meza | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 655 | 1 in 5.2K | 655 | — | — |
| BJ Benin | #346 | — | — | — | Meza | 2 |
53,230 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Mezà mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Meza, a toponymic surname from Old Spanish meza (“plateau, mesa”). Compare Modern Spanish mesa (“table, mesa”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Mezà have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Mezà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meza.
- Where is Mezà most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mezà is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 569 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mezà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 53,230 people named Mezà in 2010, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Mezà compared with other names?
- In Benin, Mezà is the 346th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mez%C3%A0The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mezà” — the 346th most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.