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Medina

#4,137 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Madina

Medina has been given to 1,987 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #4,137 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Medina, 2025

1 in 94,700

Medina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Medina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Madina

surname transfer

What Medina means

Medina is a form of Madina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Medina → Madina. The family’s meaning is “the city”, recorded in the naming reference for Madina.

Origin, language, and formation

Medina is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Medina comes through Spanish Medina.

Medina is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,987 girls were recorded with the name Medina between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,525 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,133 in 2020 to #4,137 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,243 in 2015 to #4,137 in 2025.

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 Medina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,137
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Medina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Medina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Medinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Medina was born before 2000 — so the typical Medina is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,982
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (391).

Is Medina 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
−1,324
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,106
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.3%
Peak was 2024 (60)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,525
1963

Spellings of Medina

Medina is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 33.0% against Medina's 0.22%.

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 Medina is used

Across 1910–2025, Medina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 127,393 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Medina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Medina around the world

Where Medina 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #894
    in 2025
  • France
    1959–2025
    #1,009
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #246
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Medina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,137
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4
Best rank ever
#2,525
1963
Peak year
2024
60 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,987
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Medina

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

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Sibling names for Medina

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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