Given name
Medardo
“most honored”
Medardo is a masculine given name. It is used in Spanish and Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
A possible origin is Germanic, although the derivation remains uncertain.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Medardo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 377
- 377 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,583 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Medardo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Medardo has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Medard.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Medardo
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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