Medvid

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Medvid is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Carpathian Rusyn медвідь (medvidʹ), from Proto-Slavic *medvědь (“bear”).

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 5.4Kas Медвідь(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 56Kas Медведь
  • PLPoland1 in 46K

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 Medvid 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.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,200 named Медвідь, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
127 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MedvidLatin(measured from records)
МедвідьCyrillic(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Медведь in RU Russia, BY Belarus, TW Taiwan, Медвідь in UA Ukraine and Medved in US United States.

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)

Derivation of Medvid: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Medvid
  1. Carpathian Rusynмедвідьmedvidʹ(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Slavic*medvědь“bear”(measured from records)

From Carpathian Rusyn медвідь (medvidʹ), from Proto-Slavic *medvědь (“bear”).

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Medvid 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.

Where Medvid is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#365≈8,200 est.≈1 in 5.4K—Медвідь44
RU Russia—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 56K—Медведь127
HR Croatia—2,305as Medved1 in 1.8K2.3K——
SI Slovenia—2,097as Medved1 in 1K2.1K—3
US United States—1,298as Medved1 in 256K1.4KMedved38
PL Poland—8291 in 46K422Medvid11
TW Taiwan—≈580 est.≈1 in 41K—Медведь1
BY Belarus—≈530 est.≈1 in 18K—Медведь13

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; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Medvid is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Medviď

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Medvid́

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Ukraine

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Medvìd, Медвид

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Medviď, Medvíď

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Medvid
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026422—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—422#7,693
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026407—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—407#8,142
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020136#130,360
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021135#6,069
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010133#128,249
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021117—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000105#144,908
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Medvid mean, and where does it come from?
From Carpathian Rusyn медвідь (medvidʹ), from Proto-Slavic *medvědь (“bear”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Medvid have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Медвідь in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Medvid most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Medvid is densest in Poland — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Medvid?
In Poland, the national register counted 829 people named Medvid in 2026, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
How common is Medvid compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Medvid is the 365th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Medvid” — the 365th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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