Mejia

110,790 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mejia in the 2020 census, making it the 276th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,698.

By the numbers

People: 110,790
Rank: 276th
How common: 1 in 2,698
Per 100,000: 37.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Anglicization of Spanish Mejía.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mejia described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 93.9%
White, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Mejia

Jorge María Mejía (1923–2014)Argentine cardinal
Hipólito Mejía (born 1941)former president of the Dominican Republic
Luis Mejía (born 1991)Panamanian footballer
Álvaro Mejía Pérez (born 1982)Spanish footballer
Dionisio Mejía (1907–1963)Mexican footballer
Alfredo Mejía (born 1990)Honduran footballer
Sammy Mejía (born 1983)Dominican basketball player
Analilia Mejia (born 1977)American activist and politician

People named Mejia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mejia

Mejias

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.