Medsen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Medsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 101as Madsen(measured from records)
- GLGreenland1 in 315as Madsen
- NONorway1 in 730as Madsen
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Medsen 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101 (inferred from the name graph)
58,255 named Madsen
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, as Madsen
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Madsen in US United States, NO Norway.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Medsen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 58,255as Madsen | 1 in 101 | 58K | — | — |
| US United States | 17,364as Madsen | 1 in 19K | 17K | Madsen | 19 |
| NO Norway | 7,492as Madsen | 1 in 730 | 7.5K | Madsen | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 1,619as Madsen | 1 in 6.3K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 265as Madsen | 1 in 799K | 265 | — | — |
| GL Greenland | 183as Madsen | 1 in 315 | 183 | — | — |
58,255 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)
Medsen 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 Latvian, Medzes muiža, kas atradās Liepājas apriņķa Medzes pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Medzes pagasta bijušais nosaukums vāciski
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Medsen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 58 thousand people named Madsen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Medsen most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Medsen itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 101 people named Madsen.
- How common is the name Medsen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 58,255 people named Madsen, about 1 in 101 residents.
What do you want to know about Medsen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medsenThe 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, “Medsen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.