Meza

Meza is the 634th most common surname in the United States, shared by 52,047 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,743.

By the numbers

People: 52,047
Rank: 634th
How common: 1 in 5,743
Per 100,000: 17.4

Where the name comes from

From Spanish Meza, a toponymic surname from Old Spanish meza (“plateau, mesa”). Compare Modern Spanish mesa.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 94.6%
White, not Hispanic 4.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Meza

Andrea Meza (born 1994)Miss Universe 2020
Maximiliano Meza (born 1992)Argentinian association football player
Enrique Meza (born 1948)Mexican football manager
Christian Julius de Meza (1792–1865)Danish general
Severo Meza (born 1986)Mexican footballer

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

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.