Mejías
A Spanish surname, most likely from a place-name or a nickname rooted in older Iberian speech.
The #7,450 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 69,040 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Mejías is a Spanish surname, and in modern usage it is most often associated with Spanish-speaking regions rather than with a single clearly traceable root. Like many Spanish surnames ending in -as, it may have begun as a family-name tied to a place, a local byname, or an older personal-name tradition that later became hereditary. Because there is no standard, universally accepted single derivation for it, the safest explanation is that it is an Iberian surname whose exact origin is uncertain at this remove.
History
The surname is found in Spain and across Latin America, especially in areas shaped by Spanish migration and colonial-era settlement. In modern records it is also common in the United States among Hispanic families. The form with the accent, Mejías, reflects standard Spanish orthography, though the accent is sometimes omitted in English-language documents.
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Fun fact
In U.S. records, the accent mark is often dropped, so Mejías and Mejias may refer to the same family line.