Mêda

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Mêda is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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 Mêda: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Mêda
  1. Latinmēta“boundary limit”(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Italic*mētā(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-“to measure”(measured from records)

From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta.

Sources 8

  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mêda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Mêda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
IN India—6.3K—
US United States—1.2K—
BR Brazil—381—
CZ Czechia—320—
AR Argentina—315—

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Mêda is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Burkina Faso

    Also written Meda, Méda, Mèda, Médà, Méďa

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mêda under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mêda mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
In which country does Mêda have the most bearers?
Mêda is most frequently recorded in India.

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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, “Mêda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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