Median
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: third-person plural present indicative of mediar
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meðjan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Median is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.3M
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1.5M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
126 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Median is read(measured from records)
Median 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.
- Spanish46%
third-person plural present indicative of mediar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English27%
A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Median in Indonesian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Median 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 126 | 1 in 2.6M | 178 | Median | 36 |
| PH Philippines | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Median | 6 |
| ES Spain | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Median | 13 |
| CO Colombia | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Median | 13 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Median | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Median | 3 |
126 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Median is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, , St. (An Corn); Med /eanu si -ianu fam., (act.) ; u final provine din asimilarea cu sufixul -ianu, <subst. medean, variants la maidan ; Medienesti s. 1606 (Cat mold I).
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In German, median (measure of central tendency)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of media
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of media
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)
- Magdeleine Hoursb. 1913FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian (1913–2005)
- Ruth Medianb. 1929ATAustrian-American diplomat and holocaust survivor
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
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
- Where does the name Median come from?
- A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Median?
- In the etymology graph, Mediate is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Median?
- A machine transcription gives /meðjan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Median mean?
- In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of mediar
- In which country does Median have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 126 people named Median, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled median.
- How common is the name Median?
- In the United States, the national register counted 126 people named Median in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million 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/medianThe 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, “Median”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.