Méda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ALTERATI: Medétti. 7 Frequente a Milano, é formato dal toponimo Méda (MI)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Méda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 86K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 144K
- ESSpain1 in 159K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
6,273 people
Highest-authority source
Burkina Faso, 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 Meda in IN India, US United States, ES Spain and 1 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)
ALTERATI: Medétti. 7 Frequente a Milano, é formato dal toponimo Méda (MI).
Sources 1
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Méda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 6,273 | 1 in 211K | 6.3K | Meda | 6 |
| US United States | — | 985 | 1 in 338K | 1.2K | Meda | 28 |
| BR Brazil | — | 381 | 1 in 556K | 381 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 315 | 1 in 144K | 315 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 314 | 1 in 159K | 314 | Meda | 5 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #886 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Meda | 7 |
6,273 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Dominique Médab. 1962FRFrench philosopher and sociologist
- Ildevert Médab. 1966BFAuthor, director, playwright and actor from Burkina Faso
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
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 Méda mean?
- Recorded meaning: ALTERATI: Medétti. 7 Frequente a Milano, é formato dal toponimo Méda (MI).
- In which country does Méda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Méda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meda.
- How common is the name Méda?
- In India, the national register counted 6,273 people named Méda, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
- How common is Méda compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Méda is the 886th most common surname of 4,677 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9daThe 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, “Méda” — the 886th most common surname in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.