Medlin
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Medlin is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 36th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: derivative of Media, a name of uncertain origin; perhaps a nickname from mdly ‘faint’, or an occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead from med ‘honey’, ‘mead’.
- USUnited States1 in 31K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 51K
- CACanada1 in 58K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- Sources
- 333 ●
- 1 in 31K ◐
across 4 countries
104K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
derivative of Media, a name of uncertain origin; perhaps a nickname from mdly ‘faint’, or an occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead from med ‘honey’, ‘mead’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,750 | 90K rec. | 1 in 31K | 11K | Medlin | 333 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,885 | 3.8K rec. | — | — | Medlin | 65 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,639 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Medlin | 51 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,300 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Medlin | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 434 | 445 rec. | — | 1 | Medlin | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 429 | 431 rec. | — | — | Medlin | 30 |
| LR Liberia | #36 | 280 | 839 rec. | — | — | Medlin | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | 249 | 257 rec. | — | — | Medlin | 4 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 231 | 296 rec. | — | — | Medlin | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 214 | 216 rec. | — | — | Medlin | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 198 | 204 rec. | — | — | Medlin | 6 |
| EG Egypt | — | 109 | 108 rec. | — | — | Medlin | 2 |
Roughly 11K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 31K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English105K87%
- 3.9K3%
- Spanish3.3K3%
- German9961%
- French8621%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 104,583 | 87% |
| 3,867 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 3,337 | 3% |
| German | 996 | 1% |
| French | 862 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Medlin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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●
- Harry Medlinb. 1920AUAustralian physicist
- Brian Herbert Medlinb. 1927AUAustralian philosopher and anti-war activist
- Dan Medlinb. 1949USAmerican football player
- Lee Medlinb. 1964USAmerican bicycle motocross rider
- Elexis Monroeb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress and film director
- Richard Medlinb. 1987USAmerican football player
- Phil MedlinUSbasketball player
- Graham MedlinAUAustralian zoologist
- Linda K. MedlinDEphycologist
- Pamela MedlenAUnot in their usual nameAustralian journalist
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 22 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,338 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,145 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,484 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 57 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 56 | #60,880 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 41 | #39,554 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 36 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 29 | #54,286 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 21 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #276,488 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Medlin?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Medlin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Medlin have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Medlin in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled medlin.
- How common is Medlin compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Medlin is the 36th most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Medlin mean?
- Recorded meaning: derivative of Media, a name of uncertain origin; perhaps a nickname from mdly ‘faint’, or an occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead from med ‘honey’, ‘mead’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Medlin” — the 36th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.