Mesía Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

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

What Mesía means

The spelling Mesía grew out of Mejía, a Spanish surname with a long paper trail. Name scholars give the meaning as “from Mejía" or Messiah"”.

The two spellings differ in a small detail: Mesía has “s” where Mejía has “j”. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. According to the 2010 US Census, the Mesía surname had 433 bearers. 81% of them identified as Hispanic or Latino. In Spain, the INE population register lists 191 people with Mesía as their first surname and 129 as their second.

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