Meddah
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meddah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 10K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 33K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meddah 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.
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adel Meddahb. 1997DZbadminton player
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 294 | #12,266 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 294 | #12,228 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 205 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 155 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 138 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Meddah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Meddah in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meddah.
- How common is the name Meddah?
- In Spain, the national register counted 294 people named Meddah, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
- How common is Meddah compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Meddah is the 308th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meddah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meddahThe 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, “Meddah” — the 308th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.