Medler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dow (see Mead 1) + hyrst wooded hill (see Hurst)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɛdɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Medler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 408K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.4M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700Kas Mädler
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Medler itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 408K (inferred from the name graph)
816 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Медлер in UA Ukraine.
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)
dow (see Mead 1) + hyrst wooded hill (see Hurst). This placename appears in i2th-cent. records in the Normanized form Medl(i)ers. The surname is found in Nor¬ folk as early as the 13th cent, in the form de Medlers; the landowning family who bore it were in vassalage to the Earl of Surrey, who had large estates in both Sussex and Nor¬ folk.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Medler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 816 | 1 in 408K | 861 | Medler | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 48 | 1 in 4.4M | 48 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 22as Madler | 1 in 1.7M | 12 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12as Mädler | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Медлер | 10 |
816 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Medler 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 enm, The common medlar (Crataegus germanica, syn. Mespilus germanica) or its fruit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a hamlet in Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Netherlands
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)
- Kathryn F MedlerUSresearcher
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 861 | #29,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 823 | #27,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 816 | #29,064 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 48 | #107,840 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Medler come from?
- dow (see Mead 1) + hyrst wooded hill (see Hurst). This placename appears in i2th-cent. records in the Normanized form Medl(i)ers. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Medler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɛdɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Medler mean?
- Recorded meaning: dow (see Mead 1) + hyrst wooded hill (see Hurst).
- In which country does Medler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 816 people named Medler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medler.
- Where is Medler most common?
- Medler is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 408 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Medler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 816 people named Medler in 2010, about 1 in 408 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medlerThe 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, “Medler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.