Medved
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from the Slavic languages
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɛdvəd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Medved is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 40th most common surname.
- HRCroatia1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 256K
- SISlovenia1 in 1K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,305 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Ukrainian, Belorussian, Slovak (Medved’), Czech (Medved), Slovenian, Croatian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from the nickname Medved ‘bear’, applied to a large, strong, or clumsy person. In some cases this name may be a reduced form of Ukrainian or Belorussian Medvedev, a patronymic name of the same origin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Medved is read(measured from records)
Medved is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
A surname from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Croatian30%
bear (mammal)
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Medved in Ukrainian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Medved 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #120 | 2,305 | 1 in 1.8K | 2.3K | Medved | 64 |
| SI Slovenia | #40 | 2,097 | 1 in 1K | 2.1K | Medved | 44 |
| US United States | — | 1,298 | 1 in 256K | 1.4K | Medved | 108 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Medved | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 366K | — | Medved | 15 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 92 | 1 in 116K | 92 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Medved | 13 |
2,305 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Medved 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.
Ukrainian, Belorussian, Slovak (Medved’), Czech (Medved), Slovenian, Croatian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from the nickname Medved ‘bear’, applied to a large, strong, or clumsy person. In some cases this name may be a reduced form of Ukrainian or Belorussian Medvedev, a patronymic name of the same origin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Slovenian, bear
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)
- Aleksandr Medvedb. 1937BYBelarusian Soviet wrestler (1937—2024)
- George Payneb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actor
- Andrej Medvedb. 1947SIPoet, editor and translator
- Michael Medvedb. 1948USAmerican radio show host and writer
- Samo Medvedb. 1962SISlovenian archer
- Dirk Medvedb. 1968BEBelgian footballer
- Tomo Medvedb. 1968HRCroatian politician
- Nanette Medvedb. 1970USFilipina actress
- Vladimir Medvedb. 1999BYassociation football player
- Žan Medvedb. 1999SISlovenian footballer (born 1999)
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 2.3K | #152 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 2.1K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 2.1K | #34 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,693 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,478 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #72,248 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 12 | #17,512 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Medved come from?
- Ukrainian, Belorussian, Slovak (Medved’), Czech (Medved), Slovenian, Croatian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from the nickname Medved ‘bear’, applied to a large, strong, or clumsy person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Medved?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɛdvəd/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Medved mean?
- In English, A surname from the Slavic languages.
- In which country does Medved have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Medved, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled medved.
- Where is Medved most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Medved is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Medved?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 2,305 people named Medved in 2021, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Medved compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Medved is the 120th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/medvedThe 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, “Medved” — the 120th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.