Mesias
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Spanishtown, Jamaica, Surinam; o ungido, Messias
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mesias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 7.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 14K
- CLChile≈1 in 16K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spanishtown, Jamaica, Surinam; o ungido, Messias
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mesias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Mesias | 60 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Mesias | 59 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 3 | Mesias | 61 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Mesias | 47 |
| ES Spain | — | 758 | 1 in 66K | 758 | Mesias | 71 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 564 | 1 in 6K | 564 | Mesias | 18 |
| EC Ecuador | #995 | — | — | 2.4K | Mesias | 36 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luis Torres Mesíasb. 1916MXMexican politician
- Gerardo Arceb. 1917PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Mesias mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanishtown, Jamaica, Surinam; o ungido, Messias Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Mesias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Mesias in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mesias.
- Where is Mesias most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mesias is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 6.0 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mesias?
- In Spain, the national register counted 758 people named Mesias, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
- How common is Mesias compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Mesias is the 995th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mesiasThe 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, “Mesias” — the 995th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.