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Medard

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Medard has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Medard, 1928

1 in 323,000

Medard over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Medard: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Medard means

Medard is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Medard is used in Czech and Slovak.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Medard is pronounced [ˈmɛdart].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 69 boys were recorded with the name Medard between 1916 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1918; its best national rank was #3,278 in 1918.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Medard?

Medard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928
1 in 323,000
7 of 2,260,857 births
Among boys only
1 in 158,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1928
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
223,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Medard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1928 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 223,874 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Medard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Medards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Medard was born before 1922 — so the typical Medard is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
71.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 71.0% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Medard rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (8)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,278
1918

Spellings of Medard

Medard is not the most common spelling — Edward is, with 93.8% against Medard's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Medard is used

Across 1910–2025, Medard was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,706,895 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Medard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Medard around the world

Where Medard ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–1972
    #2,169
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Medard by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,278
1918
Peak year
1918
8 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Medard

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Medard

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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