Medardo

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Medardo has been given to 377 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1998, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Medardo, 2024

1 in 669,000

Medardo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Medardo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Medardo means

Medardo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Medardo is used in Italian and Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Medardo is pronounced /meˈdar.do/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 377 boys were recorded with the name Medardo between 1915 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,560 in 1936.

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.

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How common is Medardo?

Medardo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Medardo 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Medardo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Medardos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Medardo was born before 1988 — so the typical Medardo is around 37 today.

Median birth year: 1988; About 37 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 26.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 297; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Medardo 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1998 (16)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,560; 1936

Spellings of Medardo

Medardo is not the most common spelling — Eduardo is, with 60.8% against Medardo's 0.21%.

Eduardo60.8%110,257
Gerardo30.3%55,015
Edwardo3.7%6,764
Edgardo3.3%6,029
Jerardo0.81%1,462
Renardo0.43%780
Recardo0.37%670
Medardo0.21%377

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 Medardo is used

Across 1910–2025, Medardo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,334,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 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. Medardo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Medardo 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: #2,560; 1936
Peak year: 1998; 16 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 377
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Medardo

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

Edoardo Medford Medhansh Avelardo Estuardo Edvardo Recardo Gildardo Renardo Eberardo Riccardo Leovardo Lenardo Medard Jerardo Leobardo Edgardo Lionardo Medgar Edwardo Medrick Abelardo Everardo Elizardo

Sibling names for Medardo

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

For a sister

Cydney Kalie Reilly Reanna Serina Isela Shae Taya

For a brother

Demarco Ronaldo Tariq Jaren Samual Jovan Reyes Cordell

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