Surnames in Megrelia


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  • magania – this surname is restored by the place-name lemagene, hills in alerti
  • maisaia – martvili, senaki, vedidkari, old senaki
  • maisuradze – kakhathi
  • makalathia – abasha, phothi, zanathi, sephiethi, nosiri, akhalsopheli (senaki region)
  • makaradze – abasha
  • malazonia – dsalenjikha, alertkari
  • malania – zugdidi, chkhorodsqhu, kirtskhi, photskho, naqalaqevi, odishi, urtha, akhalkhibula, zana, ingiri, lesitchine, tchithadsqhari, mokhashi, zumi, lekokaie, jikha
  • malashkhia – zugdidi, abasha
  • malishava – (its version is malichava) – alertkari, big nedzi, senaki
  • mamardashvili – martvili, nosiri, dsalenjikha
  • mamuladze – little  phothi, upper qvaloni, lesitchine
  • mamulia – senaki, chkhorodsqhu, photskho, kirtskhi, nosiri, akhuthi
  • mamphoria – zugdidi, chkhorodsqhu, orulu, akhuthi, lower chkhorodsqhu, ingiri, kakhathi, lesitchine, ergetha, chkhoushi
  • mandaria – odishi
  • manvelidze – little  phothi
  • mania – zugdidi, dsalenjikha, tchkadaushi, tchale, jvari, first edseri, darcheli, kortskheli, riqhe, phakhulani
  • mantkava – martvili
  • mantua – martvili, nagvazavo
  • manchkhava – martvili, khundsi
  • mandskava – zugdidi
  • manjavidze – dsqhemi
  • manjgaladze – zumi, chqvaleri, qvaithi
  • margvliani - zugdidi
  • margiani – khorshi
  • mari – senaki
  • marini - phothi
  • markelia – zugdidi, senaki
  • markozia – zugdidi, martvili, big dsqhoni, dsogha, lower qvaloni, akhalsopheli (senaki region), khundsi
  • marghania – zugdidi, tqhviri, khobi, sujuna
  • marghia – dsalenjikha, zugdidi, lia, jikhaskari, tchale
  • marshava – phothi, zugdidi, senaki, naqalaqevi, ledzadzame
  • marshania – zugdidi, senaki, darcheli, khobi
  • maskhulia – phothi, martvili, nakhunao, sergiethi, sachochio, sabokuchavo, kodori, saeliavo, inchkhuri, sakatcharao, kvathana (maskhulaia)
  • matakheria – senaki, phothi, khorshi, skuria
  • matkava – zugdidi, dsalenjikha, sujuna, rukhi
  • matua – dsalenjikha, jvari, chqvaleri, sachino, obuji
  • maphoria – this surname is restored by the place-name namaforu, pasture in savekuo (akhuthi)
  • maqandaria (moqandaria) – old existence of the surname is confirmed by the place-name lemaqandare/lemoqandare, hills in kheshobonu’s right side, in natsatu and korckheli
  • maqatsaria – zugdidi, phothi, qhulishkari, akhalsopheli (zugdidi region), big nedzi, tchithadsqharo, oqtomberi, ingiri, darcheli, theklathi, narazeni, orulu, tsaishi, jikhaskari, dikhagudzuba
  • maghlakelidze – akhalsopheli (khobi region)
  • maghnaradze – abasha, phothi, sujuna
  • mashava – senaki, phothi, meji, tchaladidi, batharia
  • mashia – zugdidi, khobi, orsantia
  • mashinaia – senaki, old senaki
  • macaberidze – khorshi, khobi
  • matchavariani – uphalkari
  • matcharashvili – sagvichio, akhalsopheli (khobi region)
  • makharadze – gejethi
  • makharia – lia
  • mgaloblishvili – dsaqvinji, narazeni, marani
  • mgeladze – theklathi, kethilari
  • mebonia – zugdidi, dsalenjikha, obuji, riqhe, kakhathi, jikhaskari, darcheli, ergetha, chkhorodsqhu, first khorga, chhkhoria
  • mebukia – nosiri
  • megrelishvili – sagvichio, tqhviri
  • melaia – zugdidi
  • meladze – dsalenjikha, akhalsopheli (zugdidi region), sujuna, lower tchaladidi
  • melia – abasha, zugdidi, sephiethi, abasthumani, old abasha, dsqhemi, ingiri, akhuthi, marani, lower qvaloni, khetsera
  • meliava – martvili, sergiethi, abashis marjvena mkhares ubani emeie
  • meliqia – phothi
  • meliqidze – norio
  • melqadze – samiqao
  • merckhulava – qhulishkari
  • meskhi – tchithadsqhari, abedathi, narazeni, abasha, qhulishkari
  • meskhia – zugdidi, dsalenjikha, obuji, shamgona, sachino, ingiri, akhalsopheli (senaki region), naesakao, lower qvaloni, odishi, jikhaskari, sameskhio
  • meunargia – zugdidi, tchithadsqhari, khetha, tsaishi, darcheli
  • mefareishvili – kethilari
  • mafarishvili – lower qvaloni, khobi
  • meforia – zugdidi, dsalenjikha
  • meolda – martvili, nagvazavo
  • mzarelua – senaki, zugdidi, sajijao
  • migineishvili – abasha, tqhviri, marani, nasekao, nosiri, khorshi
  • mithagvaria – zugdidi, dsalenjikha, martvili, big dsqhoni, akhalabasthumani, kakhathi, abasthumani, akhalsopheli (zugdidi region), dsaqvinji, shamgona, chqvaleri
  • mildiani – chhkhoria
  • milorava – senaki, zugdidi, old senaki, gurdzemi
  • miminoshvili – abasha, zanathi, naesakao, sujuna, akhalsopheli (senaki region), nosiri, lower qvaloni
  • mindilia – martvili, senaki, vedidkari
  • minjoria – zugdidi, phothi, ingiri
  • mirgatia – senaki, zugdidi, zana, narazeni, photskho, khobi, jvari
  • mirckhulava – zugdidi, senaki, photskho, qhulishkari, taleri, first khorga, akhalsopheli (zugdidi region), khobi, khorshi, ledzadzame, little  phothi, akhuthi, akhalsopheli (khobi region), darcheli
  • miqava – dsalenjikha, zugdidi, abedathi, medani, jgali, chhkhoria, fuqi, sachino, lia, jvari, qhulishkari, big nedzi, ledzadzame, odishi, sajijao, khetha, lemiqave, zeni, ergetha, mogiri, samiqao, nakhunavo, dsinakverkve
  • miqaia – zugdidi, martvili, bandza, ergetha, onoghia, big dsqhoni, kurzu, chkhorodsqhu, najakhavo, orulu, khabume, ledzadzame, dsalenjikha
  • miqanadze – First May
  • miqandze - zugdidi, korsantia
  • miqautadze – lower tchaladidi, gezathi, guriphuli, first khorga, khobi, koki
  • miqacadze – lower tchaladidi
  • miqadze – abasha, senaki, khobi, samiqao, qolobani, old senaki, First May, tqhviri, marani, qhulevi, old khibula
  • miqeladze – upper qvaloni, abedathi, jolevi, akhuthi, mukhuri, marani, cilori, sabokuchavo
  • miqelbaia – zugdidi, phothi
  • miqelia – this surname is restored by the place-name namqelu/nanqelu, hill in obuji; mukhuri
  • miqenaia – zugdidi, dsalenjikha, madani
  • miqia – zugdidi
  • miqiashvili – guriphuli
  • mishveladze – martvili, namikolavo first (area in lemishvelie)
  • mishvelia – zugdidi, senaki, oqtomberi, akhalsopheli (senaki region), ganarjiis mukhuri, rukhi
  • mogeladze – zugdidi, senaki, nosiri
  • modebadze – nojikhevi, phothi
  • molashkhia – dsalenjikha, zugdidi, nakiphu, abasthumani, akhalsopheli (zugdidi region), chkhorodsqhu, tchithadsqhari, odishi
  • moniava – martvili, khundsi, kakhathi, nagvazavo
  • morgoshia – zugdidi, chkhorodsqhu, dsalenjikha, thamakoni, thaia, chhkhoria, sachino, orsantia, naphichkhovo, lower qvaloni, dsogha, lower chkhorodsqhu, sergiethi, tchkaduashi, dsaqvinji (rare passport version: margoshia)
  • mosia – zugdidi, abasha, kakhathi, akhalkakhathi, akhalsopheli (zugdidi region), tchithadsqhari, tsaishi, khundsi
  • mosiava – martvili, inchkhuri, sergiethi; area in emosie, which had a village status and was called lemosiave
  • mosidze – dsalenjikha, fuqi, mukhuri, odishi, khundsi, lekhaindravo, tsaishi, jvari, lejolikhe; rare passport version mosina (khoni)
  • moqacaria – this surname is restored by the place-name lemoqacare, tributary of the  beba river in lesajele (thaia)
  • moqia – phothi
  • modsafia – martvili, zugdidi, abedathi, bandza, leqajie
  • modserilia – martvili, phothi, nagvazavo, zugdidi
  • mokhvashi – zugdidi, orsantia
  • mskhalaia – phothi, senaki, vedidkari; rare passport version mskhalia (martvili)
  • muladze – menji
  • mumulia – qhulishkari
  • munchava – theu live in the villages of lower samegrelo
  • murvanidze – little  phothi
  • murghulia – senaki, akhalsopheli (senaki region), vedidkari, photskho, khetha, tqhviri, khorga
  • muqeria – phothi
  • mushuqia – zugdidi, ganarjiis mukhuri
  • mtchedlidze – akhalsopheli (khobi region)
  • mkheidze – gurdzemi, old senaki, kirtskhi, akhalsopheli (senaki region), inchkhuri, qhulishkari, big zana, saraqoni, jgali, dsaqvinji, senaki, saghvamichavo, little  phothi, theklathi, isula, shkhefi, reka, onoghia, ushufathi, jolevi, alerti, photskho, nasajou, mokhashi, khorga, kirtskhi, thaia
 

marshania - they were princes (thavadi) in Aphkhazethi [See more at Georgian version]