Melgoza
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. probably an altered spelling of Melgosa, which Tib6n treats as a derivative of Melgar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɛlgosa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Melgoza is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- MXMexico
- CACanada
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. probably an altered spelling of Melgosa, which Tib6n treats as a derivative of Melgar. 2. habitational name from Melgosa, in Cuenca province.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Luis Amezcua Melgozab. 1938MXMexican priest and emeritus bishop of Colima
- Chuy Bravob. 1956MXnot in their usual nameMexican-American comedian and actor (1956-2019)
- Gabriela Melgozab. 1961MXbadminton player
- Raul Melgozab. 1975MXMexican fashion designer
- Natalia Melgozab. 1997MXMexican association football player
- Oliver Melgozab. 2007MXMexican footballer
- David Melgoza MontañezMXMexican politician
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 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.2K | #6,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,916 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 144 | #1,447 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Melgoza come from?
- 1. probably an altered spelling of Melgosa, which Tib6n treats as a derivative of Melgar. 2. habitational name from Melgosa, in Cuenca province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Melgoza?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛlgosa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Melgoza mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. probably an altered spelling of Melgosa, which Tib6n treats as a derivative of Melgar.
- In which country does Melgoza have the most bearers?
- Melgoza is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Melgoza?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melgozaThe 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, “Melgoza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.