Vega surname meaning

Vega is a Spanish topographic surname from vega, a fertile low meadow, river plain, or irrigated tract. It could identify someone who lived beside such land or came from a place named for it. De la Vega makes the place reference especially visible, but the shorter Vega became a surname in its own right. Several communities could generate the name independently, so it is a landscape description rather than a single family marker. The word’s agricultural sense is more specific than a generic “field”: a vega is typically productive low ground. Place is the direct, high-confidence catalog type.