Mesa

At the 2020 census, 13,306 Americans bore the surname Mesa — 2,645th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,500.

By the numbers

People: 13,306
Rank: 2,645th
How common: 1 in 22,500
Per 100,000: 4.5

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 84.5%
White, not Hispanic 8.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Mesa

Carlos Mesa (born 1953)Vice President of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003 and President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005
Salvador Valdés Mesa (born 1945)Vice President of Cuba
Roque Mesa (born 1989)Spanish association football player
Arnaldo Mesa (1967–2012)boxer
Nano Mesa (born 1995)Spanish footballer
Germán Mesa (born 1967)baseball player
Sara Mesa (born 1976)Spanish writer
Maikel Mesa (born 1991)Spanish footballer

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

Surnames like Mesa

Also a first name

Mesa has been given to 843 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2013. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.