Měd
surname · Latin script
Měd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 660few records(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 800
- MAMorocco≈1 in 2K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 663 (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tunisia, 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 Mêd in EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia, Méd in MA Morocco, TN Tunisia, Mëd in DZ Algeria and ሜድ in ET Ethiopia.
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).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Měd is found
(measured from records)Měd 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #191 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 796 | listed | Mëd | 51 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Méd | 88 |
| TN Tunisia | #702 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 663 | — | Méd | 64 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mêd | 38 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | ሜድ | 3 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mêd | 22 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 327 | 1 in 33K | 327 | — | — |
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: 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Měd is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hsb, honey (sugary substance that bees and other insects prepare with the juice of flowers, and which they deposit in the cells of their honeycombs)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-ocs, copper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Měd?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Měd in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mëd. After it come Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Ethiopia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Měd?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 327 people named Měd, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Měd compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Měd is the 191st most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Měd?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C4%9BdThe 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, “Měd” — the 191st most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.