Midian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: As the forefather of the Midianites, he represents a branch of the Abrahamic lineage distinct from the covenantal line of Isaac, often associated with the desert regions and trade routes
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/midjɐn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Midian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 46K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 142K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 163K
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 Midian 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
4,585 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Midia in BR Brazil and Madian in HN Honduras.
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)
As the forefather of the Midianites, he represents a branch of the Abrahamic lineage distinct from the covenantal line of Isaac, often associated with the desert regions and trade routes.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world(measured from records)
Midian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 4,585 | 1 in 46K | 5.1K | Midia | 69 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Midian | 5 |
| US United States | 137 | 1 in 2.4M | 101 | Midian | 66 |
| PE Peru | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 274K | — | Midian | 18 |
| SE Sweden | 116as Midia | 1 in 88K | 116 | — | 9 |
| HN Honduras | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Madian | 10 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Midian | 8 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Midian | 6 |
4,585 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling midian. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Midian is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Strife, contention, or place of judgment
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, A biblical location in northwest Arabia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.1K | #3,325 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 5K | #1,486 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 4.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.5K | #2,917 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 4.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 640 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Midian a male or female name?
- Midian is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Midian mean, and where does it come from?
- As the forefather of the Midianites, he represents a branch of the Abrahamic lineage distinct from the covenantal line of Isaac, often associated with the desert regions and trade routes. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Midian?
- A machine transcription gives /midjɐn/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Midian have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Midian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled midia.
- Where is Midian most common?
- Midian is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 46 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Midian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,585 people named Midian in 2022, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Midian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/midianThe 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, “Midian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.