Medina
Medina was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,137 among girls’ names; 1,987 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Medina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 12 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Medina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Medina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Medina is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Borrowed from Spanish Medina.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Medina?
#4,137 among girls’ names, 2025
Medina rose from #5,243 in 2015 to #4,137 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 21.8 per million.
60 babies in 2024, the peak
Medina peaked in 2024, when 60 girls were given it, #2,813 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,137 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,813 | 37.0 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,039 | 34.3 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,062 | 32.9 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,915 | 23.2 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,133 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,648 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,824 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,966 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,231 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,243 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,696 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,305 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,566 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,325 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,934 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,844 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,058 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,532 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,428 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,039 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,349 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,703 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,633 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,178 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,314 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,688 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,991 | 24.3 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,969 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,402 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,737 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,196 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,259 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,742 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,683 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,619 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,630 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,589 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,798 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,359 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,688 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,937 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,047 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,098 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,108 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,466 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,737 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,715 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,706 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,059 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,783 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,388 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,883 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,242 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,228 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,813 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,557 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,390 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,032 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,114 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,006 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,197 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,525 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,248 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,419 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,622 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,211 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,330 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,892 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,359 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,182 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,993 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,131 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,330 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,753 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Medina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Medina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Medina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Medina, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,987 Americans ever recorded as Medina. The median Medina alive today is 25 years old; half are between 12 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 2,208 people named Medina (2,089 women and girls, 119 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,668 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 145 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 295 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 361 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 594 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 520 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Medina born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,303 | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,555 | 0.5× |
Where Medina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Medina is most over-represented in New York: since 1948 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Medina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,250 babies since 1880, Medina is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 49 babies (71%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Medina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Medina and names like it
- Compare Medina and MadinahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMedina peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Medina since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Medina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Medina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Medina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.