Medan

loc · Latin script

Meaning: field

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Medan is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • IDIndonesia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
58 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

field

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Medan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Medan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—listedMedan58
GB United Kingdom——Medan11
AU Australia——Medan12
ID Indonesia——Medan1
AR Argentina—144——
ES Spain—93—1
FR France—46—2
HR Croatia—35——

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Medan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Mëdàñ

  • Bulgarian name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Медан, Мeдан

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Médan, Medán

  • Arabic name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Syria, Morocco

    Also written Mêdãñ, Medãn

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Medan 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.

  • Strife, contention, or judge

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In English, Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Swedish, while; during the same time that

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, while

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1930194019501960Maria Pilar Busquet i Medan, b. 1937Yaaqov Medan, b. 1950Diego Medan, b. 1951Anton Medan, b. 1957

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 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Medan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—144—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—93#29,021
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—93#28,848
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196162—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192162—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195157—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191148—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189148—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193144—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194143—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Medan mean, and where does it come from?
field Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
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Medan is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled medan.

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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, “Medan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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