Md
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of Maryland: a state of the United States
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Md is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 415K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 175
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 218
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Md itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 175 (inferred from the name graph)
≈930,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled এমডি in BD Bangladesh, MY Malaysia, Mead in US United States and Meade in KR South Korea.
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)
Abbreviation of Maryland: a state of the United States.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Md 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈930,000 est. | ≈1 in 175 | — | এমডি | 242 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 218 | — | এমডি | 100 |
| US United States | — | 22,727as Mead | 1 in 15K | 23K | Mead | 307 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Md | 37 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Md | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 110 | 1 in 455K | 342 | — | 59 |
| KR South Korea | #837 | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Meade | 35 |
| DM Dominica | — | 24as Meade | 1 in 3.1K | 24 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 10as Meade | 1 in 5.4K | 10 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Md is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In egy, alternative spelling of mdw (“word, speech”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Moldova since 1992.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, abbreviation of Mediolanum, Milan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Skaitļa 1500 apzīmējums romiešu cipariem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- A. K. Md. Ehsanes Salehb. 1932BDBangladeshi statistician (1932-)
- Md. Abdul Hamid Lukmanb. 2002BDbadminton player
- Md. Zain KhaironizamMYMalaysian ichthyologist
- Md. Abul Hassanbotanist
- Md KamruzzamanUSPh.D. University of California, San Diego 2013
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)
Attested in 39 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 342 | #5,978 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 155 | #5,119 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 4 | #107 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Md mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of Maryland: a state of the United States. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Md have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 928 thousand people named Md in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled এমডি.
- How common is the name Md?
- In Spain, the national register counted 110 people named Md, about 1 in 455 thousand residents.
- How common is Md compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Md is the 837th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Md?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mdThe 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, “Md” — the 837th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.