Meaning & History
Spanish (Mejía): probably from a religious byname (possibly under Jewish influence), from a vernacular form of Latin, Greek Messias ‘Messiah’, from Hebrew māšīaḥ ‘anointed’.
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Meaning & History
A very ancient surname, infrequent and widely spread across Spain, mostly in Madrid, Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Valencia, Cuenca, Sevilla and Toledo; and also in Pontevedra, Lugo, Guadalajara, Almería, Granada, Alicante and Málaga.It is much more common on its plural form: Mejías.It comes from an ancient personal hispanic name from a questionable etimology, possibly a variant of Matías. On the other hand, it also means medicine, so maybe it comes from nicknames applied to pharmaceuticals.