Mesa
loc · Latin script
Meaning: probably a habitational name from any of various places, mainly in southern Spain, named La Mesa, from Latin mensa ‘table’, with reference to a topographic feature
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries
Mesa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 1.8Kas Maeşa(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 19Kas เมษา
- ARArgentina≈1 in 519K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mesa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 519K (inferred from the name graph)
74,528 named Maisa, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Masa in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, FI Finland and 1 more, เมษา in TH Thailand, Maša in SI Slovenia and Maeşa in TM Turkmenistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)probably a habitational name from any of various places, mainly in southern Spain, named La Mesa, from Latin mensa ‘table’, with reference to a topographic feature.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mesa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 74,528as Maisa | 1 in 2.8K | 75K | Masa | 68 |
| SI Slovenia | #472 | 5,351as Maša | 1 in 393 | 5.4K | Maša | 22 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 1 | Masa | 8 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | register #483,238 | เมษา | 79 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #368 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Maeşa | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,059as Maisa | 1 in 2.7K | 2.1K | Masa | 8 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,072as Maša | 1 in 3.9K | 2.1K | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 519K | 7.6K | Masa | 70 |
74,528 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling maisa. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mesa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, on a plateau, OSp. mesa (L mensa table), or habitation name from any of the several places named with this term, for example in the provinces of Cadiz, Jaen, and Toledo.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, county, CO; town, AZ
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
goat; ram; sheep.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Portuguese, table
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Salvador Valdés Mesab. 1945CUVice President of Cuba
- Carlos Mesa Gisbertb. 1953BOVice President of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003 and President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005
- Arnaldo Mesab. 1967CUboxer (1967–2012)
- Germán Mesab. 1967CUbaseball player
- Mario Kindelánb. 1971CUnot in their usual nameboxer
- Liana Mesa Luacesb. 1977CUvolleyball player
- Simón Mesa Sotob. 1986COColombian film director and screenwrit
- Roque Mesab. 1989ESSpanish association football player
- Maikel Mesab. 1991ESSpanish footballer
- Juan del Carmen Cámarab. 1994ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)49 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 7.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,232 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #30,169 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mesa mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a habitational name from any of various places, mainly in southern Spain, named La Mesa, from Latin mensa ‘table’, with reference to a topographic feature. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mesa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 75 thousand people named Maisa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mesa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 74,528 people named Maisa in 2022, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Mesa compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Mesa is the 368th most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mesaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mesa” — the 368th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.