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How popular is the name Medina?

Births per year, rank history and how many Medinas are alive today.

Medina (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 894th in 2025 with 39 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2024, when 47 babies were given the name, the 795th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. Medina is one spelling of a name also recorded as Medinah; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Medina you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Medinas born in England and Wales are between 4 and 17, and there are at least 640 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Medina - on average, only one in every 493 such rooms contains a Medina.

How many babies are named Medina each year?

Includes all spellings: Medina, Medinah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Medina spelling rank?

Where does the Medinah spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.