Medina

186,456 people in the United States were counted with the surname Medina in the 2020 census, making it the 132nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,603.

By the numbers

People: 186,456
Rank: 132nd
How common: 1 in 1,603
Per 100,000: 62.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.4%
White, not Hispanic 5.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Medina

Lina Medina (born 1933)Peruvian woman, youngest confirmed mother in medical history
Danilo Medina (born 1951)former president of the Dominican Republic
Ramón Medina Bello (born 1966)Argentine association football player
Anabel Medina Garrigues (born 1982)Spanish tennis player
Facundo Medina (born 1999)Argentinian association football player
Medina (born 1982)Danish pop singer
Jorge Medina Estévez (1926–2021)Catholic cardinal
Luis Medina Cantalejo (born 1964)Spanish football referee

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

Surnames like Medina

Also a first name

Medina has been given to 1,987 American babies as a first name since 1948, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

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.