Melgar Family History
Melgar Name Meaning
Spanish: topographic name for someone who lived by a field of lucerne Spanish melgar (a collective derivative of mielga ‘lucerne’ Late Latin melica for classical Latin Medica herba ‘plant from Media’). There are several places in Spain named with this word and the surname may be a habitational name from any one of them.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022