Medardo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Da una radice anglosassone, interpretata come 'onoratissimo'; santo vescovo di Noyon (V sec.), 8 giugno
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛdardo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Medardo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 3.5K
- ECEcuador1 in 3.8K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Da una radice anglosassone, interpretata come 'onoratissimo'; santo vescovo di Noyon (V sec.), 8 giugno.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Where in the world(measured from records)
Medardo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Medardo | 30 |
| EC Ecuador | #239 | 4,456 | 1 in 3.8K | 4.5K | Medardo | 39 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 2,853 | 1 in 10K | 2.9K | Medardo | 21 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Medardo | 41 |
| NI Nicaragua | #202 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Medardo | 12 |
| HN Honduras | #272 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Medardo | 16 |
| SV El Salvador | #384 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Medardo | 23 |
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: INEC — civil registry names; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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)
Medardo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, germánico Mechthard/Math-hard; 'audaz en el poder'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, I l primo, secondo il Fumagalli, da una radice anelo- sassone, significherebbe Onoratiesin~o.Nome raro in Italia, meno raro in Francia; Santo, vescovo di Noyon. aec. V; 8 giugno. &fa che il secondo possa essere una modificazione del primo, mi pare dubbio.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Gobernante fuerte
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Governante forte
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese: from an old Germanic personal name composed of a first element of uncertain origin + hard hardy, brave, strong. It is borne in honour of St Medard ( c. 470– c. 558), bishop of Noyon and Tournai. His brother, St Gildard, served as archbishop of Rouen.
as a word
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)
- Medard Santmartí i Aguilób. 1856ESnot in their usual nameSpanish sculptor (1855-1891)
- Medardo Carreño y Suárezb. 1873ESSpanish composer
- Medardo Vitierb. 1886CUCuban politician
- Medardo Ángel Silvab. 1898ECEcuadorian writer (1898-1919)
- Medardo Faríasb. 1898UYUruguayan general (1898-1960)
- Atriz Luana Brandãob. 1949HNnot in their usual nameAtriz e Escritora
- Félix Murazzob. 1951PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Medardo Mairenab. 1978NINicaraguan peasant leader
- Medardo Medosibasso
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Medardo?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛdardo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Medardo a male or female name?
- Medardo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Medardo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Da una radice anglosassone, interpretata come 'onoratissimo'; santo vescovo di Noyon (V sec.), 8 giugno.
- In which country does Medardo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Medardo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medardo.
- How common is the name Medardo?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,456 people named Medardo in 2024, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Medardo compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Medardo is the 202nd most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medardoThe 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, “Medardo” — the 202nd most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.