The MEDINA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	139,353	176	0.052	517
United States (1880 census)	1,025	5339	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+138328	+5163	+0.05	+496
Other Countries
Australia	293	5326	0.002	18
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MEDINA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	38,709	65	0.114	1,143
Texas	23,218	105	0.111	1,113
Florida	13,523	130	0.085	846
New York	8,970	176	0.047	473
Illinois	6,598	179	0.053	531
Top States for MEDINA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Mexico	2,820	62	0.155	1,550
Colorado	6,272	58	0.146	1,458
California	38,709	65	0.114	1,143
Texas	23,218	105	0.111	1,113
Nevada	1,959	96	0.098	980

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MEDINA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MEDINA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MEDINA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MEDINA by picking someone at random in New Mexico than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MEDINA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MEDINA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MEDINA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MEDINA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	892	0.64
Black/African American	739	0.53
Native American/Alaskan	543	0.39
White (Hispanic)	125,557	90.1
White (Caucasian)	8,905	6.39
Asian/Pacific	2,717	1.95

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MEDINA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MEDINA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEDINA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.