Medin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Medm, a place in A Coruna province
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɪˈdin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Medin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 899K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 10K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 34K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
978 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Medm, a place in A Coruna province.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Medin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 978 | 1 in 10K | 978 | Medin | 42 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Medin | 1 |
| ES Spain | 408 | 1 in 123K | 408 | Medin | 48 |
| US United States | 370 | 1 in 899K | 493 | Medin | 162 |
| PH Philippines | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Medin | 17 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Medin | 3 |
| NO Norway | 78 | 1 in 70K | 78 | — | 12 |
978 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Medin 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 Breton, moissonner
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Anders Medinb. 1803SESwedish politician
- Alfred Medinb. 1841SESwedish architect
- Karl Oskar Medinb. 1847SESwedish pediatrian (1847–1927)
- Gastone Medinb. 1905ITItalian scenographer
- Zvi Medinb. 1939ILIsraeli historian
- Douglas L Medinb. 1944USAmerican psychologist
- Karin Medinb. 1967SESwedish athletics competitor
- Joakim Medinb. 1984SESwedish journalist and writer
- Gordana MedinSIresearcher
- Anine Christine Medinresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4154-6264
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 50 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 978 | #1,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 493 | #46,548 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 408 | #9,362 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 408 | #9,354 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 370 | #55,505 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 365 | #53,191 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 78 | #18,837 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Medin mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Medm, a place in A Coruna province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Medin?
- A machine transcription gives /meɪˈdin/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Medin have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 978 people named Medin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medin.
- Where is Medin most common?
- Medin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Medin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 978 people named Medin, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Medin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medinThe 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, “Medin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.