Medhus
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mdhus/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Medhus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 12K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
- USUnited States≈1 in 3M
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
450 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Medhus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 450 | 1 in 12K | 450 | Medhus | 11 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Medhus | 73 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Medhus | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | — |
450 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Svenn Erik Medhusb. 1982NONorwegian handball 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)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Medhus?
- A machine transcription gives /mdhus/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Medhus have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 450 people named Medhus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medhus.
- Where is Medhus most common?
- Medhus is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Medhus?
- In Norway, the national register counted 450 people named Medhus, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Medhus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medhusThe 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, “Medhus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.