Meden
surname · Latin script
Meaning: made with honey (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/meðen/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Meden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country: 324 people, counted by stat.si Imena rojstva.
- SISlovenia1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 23Kfew records
- HRCroatia1 in 48K
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
324 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Meden
- Spanish:/meðen/(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)made with honey
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Meden is found
(measured from records)Meden 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.
324 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)Meden 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 Finnish, genitive singular of mesi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of med
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, made with honey, honeyed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, inflection of mijden:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, to reward, gift
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)- Karl-Friedrich von der Medenb. 1896DEGerman general and Knight's Cross recipients (1896-1961)
- Tonio von der Medenb. 1936DEGerman actor and voice actor
- Andreas von der Medenb. 1943DEGerman actor and voice actor (1943–2017)
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 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meden mean, and where does it come from?
- made with honey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Meden?
- In Spanish /meðen/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Meden?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 324 people named Meden, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Paraguay, United States, Croatia and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Meden most common?
- Meden is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meden?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 324 people named Meden, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Meden compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Meden is the 837th most common surname of 30,328 surnames 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/medenThe 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, “Meden” — ranked 1164th in Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.