Medel

Medel is the 7,726th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,131 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 72,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,131
Rank: 7,726th
How common: 1 in 72,400
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

From the Spanish surname, possibly from Latin Emetherius, from Ancient Greek ἐμός + ἀθάνατος (“undying, immortal”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Medel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 87.6%
White, not Hispanic 6.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Medel

Gary Medel (born 1987)Chilean association football player

People named Medel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Medel

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.