Meza
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: inflection of mecer:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/meθa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 293(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 380
- HNHonduras≈1 in 391
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #551 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 398 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 293 (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
A toponymic surname of Spanish origin, most frequently found in this spelling in Latin America.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Meza is read(measured from records)
Meza is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish83%
inflection of mecer:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.7%
A toponymic surname of Spanish origin, most frequently found in this spelling in Latin America.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #63 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 477 | — | Meza | 128 |
| US United States | — | 53,230 | 1 in 6.2K | 53K | Meza | 398 |
| AR Argentina | #156 | 47,699 | 1 in 953 | 48K | Meza | 96 |
| CO Colombia | #175 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 23 | Meza | 138 |
| VE Venezuela | #172 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 963 | — | Meza | 78 |
| PY Paraguay | #53 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 293 | — | Meza | 57 |
| HN Honduras | #48 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 391 | — | Meza | 64 |
| NI Nicaragua | #50 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 380 | — | Meza | 46 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8,952 | 1 in 569 | 9K | — | 91 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Meza 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.
Amsterdam, Surinam, Curaçao, Coûte, Minas Gérais; Mesa, España
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Romanian, < vb. meta a minca de amiaza" (DLR). 1. - N., act. ; - t. 2. Mezea, Stanciu (Giur 245 ; T-Rom 116) scris si Meazecr Stanciul (Div 57). 3. Mezeu (Costin II). si s. (Dm). 4. Mezei b. cf. si ung. meza cimpie".
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
possibly Basque: unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In lad, table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)
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)
- Christian Julius de Mezab. 1792DKDanish general
- Miguel de San Románb. 1802PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru (1802–1863)
- Florinda Mezab. 1949MXMexican actress, screenwriter, writer, director, producer, singer and broadcaster (born 1949)
- Endy Chávezb. 1978VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan baseball player
- Porfirio Lópezb. 1985CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Jesús Mezab. 1986VEVenezuelan association football player
- Snow Tha Productb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and singer
- Arturo Minab. 1990ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian footballer
- Maximiliano Eduardo Mezab. 1992ARArgentinian association football player
- Andrea Mezab. 1994MXMiss Universe 2020
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 53K | #639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 52K | #634 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 48K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 38K | #835 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 9K | #180 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 23 | #93 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Meza come from?
- A toponymic surname of Spanish origin, most frequently found in this spelling in Latin America. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Meza?
- A machine transcription gives /meθa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Meza mean?
- In Spanish, inflection of mecer:
- In which country does Meza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Meza in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meza.
- How common is the name Meza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 53,230 people named Meza in 2010, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Meza compared with other names?
- In Peru, Meza is the 63rd most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mezaThe 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, “Meza” — the 63rd most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.