Medir
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to measure
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meðiɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Medir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 1M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
48 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to measure
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Medir 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 48 | 1 in 1M | 48 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Medir | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 29 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
48 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Medir is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, to measure, gauge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Catalan form of EMETERIO .
as a word
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)
- Ramir Medir i Jofrab. 1889ESSpanish historian, writer and politician (1889-1974)
- Lluís Medir Jofrab. 1893ESSpanish painter (1893-1957)
- Lluís Medir i Huertab. 1947ESCatalan pharmacist and politician
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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 48 | #45,952 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #45,681 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Medir mean, and where does it come from?
- to measure Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Medir?
- A machine transcription gives /meðiɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Medir have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 48 people named Medir, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Medir most common?
- Medir is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Medir?
- In Spain, the national register counted 48 people named Medir, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Medir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medirThe 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, “Medir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.