Médina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: medina (old town of North African cities)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Médina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 160
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 160
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #187 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 504 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 152 (inferred from the name graph)
≈520,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Medina in MX Mexico, AR Argentina, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)medina (old town of North African cities)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Médina 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #32 | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 249 | 10K | Medina | 264 |
| AR Argentina | #21 | 192,671 | 1 in 236 | 193K | Medina | 158 |
| US United States | #429 | 188,497 | 1 in 1.8K | 188K | Medina | 504 |
| VE Venezuela | #18 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 152 | — | Medina | 125 |
| CO Colombia | #39 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 287 | 93 | Medina | 215 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #19 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 159 | — | Medina | 102 |
| PY Paraguay | #28 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 155 | — | Medina | 77 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Raphaël Médinab. 1906FRFrench actor
- Maya Lauquéb. 1979FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Médina mean, and where does it come from?
- medina (old town of North African cities) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Médina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 525 thousand people named Médina in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medina.
- How common is the name Médina?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 192,671 people named Médina, about 1 in 236 residents.
- How common is Médina compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Médina is the 32nd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Médina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9dinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Médina” — the 32nd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.