Medel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from the personal name Medel, possibly a derivative of the Latin name Emetherius (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/meðel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Medel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,620 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- ESSpain1 in 23K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 36K
- USUnited States1 in 72K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
4,620 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Medel
- Spanish:/meðel/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. from the personal name Medel, possibly a derivative of the Latin name Emetherius. 2. habitational name from San Medel, a town in Salamanca province.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Medel is found
(measured from records)Medel 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.
4,620 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Medel 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 Swedish, a means (to an end)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a hamlet in Tiel, Gelderland, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, masculine singular l-participle of mesti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, handful of harvested grain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, alternative form of mæþel
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)- Arturo Sanhuezab. 1979CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Tallie Medelb. 1986USAmerican actor
- Gary Medelb. 1987CLChilean association football 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Medel come from?
- 1. from the personal name Medel, possibly a derivative of the Latin name Emetherius. 2. habitational name from San Medel, a town in Salamanca province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Medel?
- In Spanish /meðel/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Medel mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from the personal name Medel, possibly a derivative of the Latin name Emetherius.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Medel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Medel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medel. After it come Spain, Argentina, Brazil and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Medel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Medel is densest in Spain — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Medel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,620 people named Medel in 2010, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
- How common is Medel compared with other names?
- In Benin, Medel is the 595th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Medel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medelThe 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, “Medel” — ranked 7224th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.