Medas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/mɨðɐʃ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Medas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 14K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 430Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Medas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Medas | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 135K | listed | Medas | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 278 | 1 in 762K | 278 | — | 1 |
| IN India | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Medas | 4 |
| US United States | 233 | 1 in 1.4M | 249 | Medas | 114 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 429K | — | Medas | 24 |
| GY Guyana | 54 | 1 in 14K | 54 | Medas | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Medas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, feminine plural of medo
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)- Mario Medasb. 1931ITItalian actor (1931-2013)
- Gianluca Medasb. 1962ITItalian actor and writer
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 278 | #28,188 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 249 | #81,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 233 | #81,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 224 | #79,115 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 54 | #571 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #37,531 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Medas?
- In Portuguese /mɨðɐʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Medas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Medas in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medas.
- Where is Medas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Medas is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Sudan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Medas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 278 people named Medas, about 1 in 762 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medasThe 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, “Medas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.