Given name & surname
Mesina
“keg, small barrel”
Mesina is a surname, probably from Sardinian. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mesina probably goes back to Sardinian mesina, meaning “keg, small barrel.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Probably from Sardinian mesina (“keg, small barrel”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mesina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1982. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 959 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mesina’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Mesina as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Messina. In Greek usage, Mesina as a surname is a transliteration of Μεσίνα.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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