Medellìn
loc · Latin script
Medellìn is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The municipality and city are both named after Medellín, Spain.
- MXMexico≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 14K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 40Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Medellin in CO Colombia, MX Mexico and Medellín in BO Bolivia, GT Guatemala.
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)The municipality and city are both named after Medellín, Spain.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Medellìn is found
(measured from records)Medellìn 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 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 548 | Medellin | 155 |
| US United States | 6,231 | 1 in 53K | 6.2K | — | 221 |
| CO Colombia | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 4 | Medellin | 71 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Medellín | 17 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Medellín | 5 |
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 co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Medellìn mean, and where does it come from?
- The municipality and city are both named after Medellín, Spain. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Medellìn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Medellìn in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medellin. After it come United States, Colombia, Bolivia and Guatemala; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Medellìn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,231 people named Medellìn in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Medellìn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medell%C3%ACnThe 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, “Medellìn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.