The Megia Family Name

Megia is best understood together with Mejía: both are Spanish spellings of a single family name. The family name meaning is “from Mejía" or Messiah"”, the same as for Mejía.

Spelling and variants

Megia is listed among the recognised spellings of Mejía. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

In the records

The 2010 census count for Megia in the United States was 661, good for rank 34,314. Of these, 81% identified as Hispanic or Latino. Spanish statistics put 1,617 people with Megia in first position and 1,516 in second.

Megia coat of arms

Arms linked to Mejía and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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