Med
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Med is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.6K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 12K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 967 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Méd in MA Morocco, TN Tunisia, FR France, Mêd in EG Egypt and Mëd in DZ Algeria.
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)
-MIED subst. < si. *meq-k 1. Medea b., olt. (16 B V 56). 2. Medar fam., olt. (Cand 15) cel ce fabrics miedul", dar cf. sl. nu.soph. lat. pincerna paharnic" ; -u/, Sima, 1589 (16 B V 411) ; Medariul, Pavel (16 A III 253) ; Medlar t. (Mus). 3. Miedar, Ion (17 A II 245) ; Midar (BCI I index) ; Nichita, act., mold. v. Mardarie (P. I-a).
Sources 3
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Med 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.
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: the dz-kaggle-names register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Oldrich Medb. 1914CZCzech Roman Catholic priest (1914–1991)
- Jan Medb. 1916CZCzech christian missionary (1916–2011)
- Jaroslav Medb. 1932CZCzech historian and literature reviewer (1932-2018)
- Bohumil Medb. 1939CZCzech publisher
- Ladislav Medb. 1960CZCzech politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- How do you pronounce Med?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Med have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Med in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mëd.
- How common is the name Med?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 327 people named Med, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Med compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Med is the 191st most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Med?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medThe 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, “Med” — the 191st most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.