Spanish (Mejía): probably from a religious byname
(possibly under Jewish influence), from a vernacular form of Latin,
Greek Messias ‘Messiah’, from Hebrew mašia?h
‘anointed’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mejia
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mejia census records
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