Medà
surname · Latin script
Medà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta.
- INIndia1 in 211K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 338K
- ARArgentina1 in 144K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 144K (inferred from the name graph)
6,273 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
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, CH Switzerland.
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)
- Latinmēta“boundary limit”(measured from records)
- Proto-Italic*mētā(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-“to measure”(measured from records)
From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta.
Sources 8
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Medà 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 | 48 |
| US United States | 985 | 1 in 338K | 1.2K | Meda | 179 |
| BR Brazil | 381 | 1 in 556K | 381 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 315 | 1 in 144K | 315 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 314 | 1 in 159K | 314 | — | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | Meda | 6 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Medà mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Medà have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Medà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meda.
- Where is Medà most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Medà is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 144 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Medà?
- In India, the national register counted 6,273 people named Medà, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/med%C3%A0The 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, “Medà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.