Mádai

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mádai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: He functions as the eponymous ancestor of the Median empire in the biblical worldview.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 234K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 977K
  • PLPoland1 in 982K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Hungary (inferred from the name graph)

≈42 people, est.

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

He functions as the eponymous ancestor of the Median empire in the biblical worldview.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mádai counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Mádai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary≈42 est.≈1 in 234K—Mádai32
PL Poland391 in 982K20——
BE Belgium121 in 977K12——
IN India81 in 166M8—1
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mádai is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Madaí, Madai, Madaĭ, Madaï

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mádai under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mádai mean, and where does it come from?
He functions as the eponymous ancestor of the Median empire in the biblical worldview. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
In which country does Mádai have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 42 people named Mádai in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mádai.
How common is the name Mádai?
In Poland, the national register counted 39 people named Mádai in 2026, about 1 in 982 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mádai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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