Meduna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: affectionate nickname from medunny ‘as sweet as honey’, from med ‘mead’, ‘honey’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mdunə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meduna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 18K(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 73K
- SKSlovakia1 in 777K
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 Meduna 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
581 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Медуна 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)affectionate nickname from medunny ‘as sweet as honey’, from med ‘mead’, ‘honey’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meduna 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.
581 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)- Tommaso Medunab. 1798ITItalian engineer
- Giovanni Battista Medunab. 1800ITItalian architect
- Vladimír Medunab. 1888UAPolish politician of Czech origin
- Ladislas Joseph Medunab. 1896HUHungarian-American neurologist and neuropathologist (1896–1964)
- Karel Medunab. 1897CZCzech soccer player (1897-1964)
- Eduard Medunab. 1950CZCzech chess player
- Jaromír Medunab. 1953CZCzech dubbing actor and actor
- Alexander Medunab. 1957CZCzech computer scientist
- Michal Medunab. 1981CZCzech soccer player
- Veronika Medunab. 2000DEscientist, journalist, broadcaster
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 581 | #2,567 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 579 | #2,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 405 | #54,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 317 | #63,068 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 309 | #60,887 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 264 | #29,329 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 7 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Meduna mean, and where does it come from?
- affectionate nickname from medunny ‘as sweet as honey’, from med ‘mead’, ‘honey’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Meduna?
- A machine transcription gives /mdunə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Meduna have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 581 people named Meduna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meduna.
- Where is Meduna most common?
- Meduna is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meduna?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 581 people named Meduna, about 1 in 18 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/medunaThe 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, “Meduna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.