Meda
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: conical haystack
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmeɪdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 26Kas Modi(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 108Kas Modi
- ARArgentina1 in 144K
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 Meda 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- 1 in 144K (inferred from the name graph)
50,460 named Modi
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Modi in IN India, US United States, KE Kenya and 1 more and Mada in PK Pakistan.
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)
fat; the Sphaeranthus indicus herb; a mixed caste.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Meda is read(measured from records)
Meda is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi51%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Meda in Hindi.
- Spanish13%
conical haystack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.8%
Priestess
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meda 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 | #504 | 50,460as Modi | 1 in 26K | 50K | Modi | 259 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Modi | 15 |
| US United States | — | 3,085as Modi | 1 in 108K | 4.4K | Modi | 304 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 209K | listed | Mada | 18 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Modi | 17 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Meda | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 315 | 1 in 144K | 315 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 269as Madi | 1 in 38K | 269 | — | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | 123as Mod | 1 in 45K | 123 | — | 9 |
50,460 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Meda 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.
fat; the Sphaeranthus indicus herb; a mixed caste.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Italian, topônimo de Meda; de meta, monte, elevação
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Hindu name from Telugu mea ‘mansion’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Meda, a village in Galicia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Giuseppe Medab. 1534ITItalian painter (1534-1599)
- Filippo Medab. 1869ITItalian politician and journalist (1869–1939)
- Luigi Medab. 1900ITItalian politician, born 1900
- Eugenio Medab. 1917ITacademic (1917 - 2013), member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 1975
- Alberto Medab. 1945ITItalian engineer and industrial designer (born 1945)
- Igor Medab. 1967RURussian footballer
- Julio César Uríasb. 1972GTnot in their usual nameathletics competitor
- Juri Medab. 1976ITItalian historian (1976-)
- Erika Medafilm producer and cinematographer
- Ida MedaITItalian actress
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 64 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7.8K | #288 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6.3K | #1,340 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,209 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 985 | #25,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 666 | #32,529 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 315 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Meda come from?
- fat; the Sphaeranthus indicus herb; a mixed caste. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- In which country does Meda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 50 thousand people named Modi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meda is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 144 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Meda mean?
- In Spanish, conical haystack
- How do you pronounce Meda?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmeɪdə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- How common is the name Meda?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 315 people named Meda, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
- How common is Meda compared with other names?
- In India, Meda is the 504th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medaThe 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, “Meda” — the 504th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.