de Mejía Surname

7,593,402nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Dominican Republic
Highest density in:
Panama

de Mejía Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

de Mejía Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Guatemala11:16,082,66812,169
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: de Mejia (209) are calculated separately.

de Mejía Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name de Mejía Come From? nationality or country of origin

de Mejía is carried by more people in The Dominican Republic than any other country/territory. It can also be found as: de Mejia. For other potential spellings of de Mejía click here.

How Common Is The Last Name de Mejía? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 7,593,402nd most frequently held surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 1,214,590,986 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 100 percent of de Mejía live; 33 percent live in Central America and 33 percent live in Hispano-Central America.

The surname de Mejía is most widely held in The Dominican Republic, where it is carried by 1 people, or 1 in 10,432,932. Excluding The Dominican Republic this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Guatemala, where 17 percent live and Mexico, where 17 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
de Mejia96209/
de Mejías941/
de Mexia751/
de Meijer711,338/
de Meue67165/
de Moei6740/
de Moye6727/
de Meijier6717/
de Moua6710/
de Moey679/
de Mauá673/
de Maua672/
de Meeo671/
De Moie671/
de Maye671/
de Maeo671/
de Majhi6326/
de Magio632/
de Mayyo631/
de Meuer631/
de Mouey631/
de Maayer5979/
de Maijer5965/
de Micheo5916/
de Meyier599/
de Maiais591/
de Muijer591/
de Maaijer5689/
de Maujouy561/
de Mouy5321/
da Meye531/
De-Moye531/
di Magio5014/
de Mouhy507/
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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to de Mejía
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