Medina

Where Medina comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Medina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Medina
  • Vowel-ended
Medina through the years
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #5,243 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1963
    Peak, #2,489
    24 babies named Medina, its best rank.
  3. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #4,222.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.