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    The surname Medwid

    A surname, carried by 323 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M330

    Medwid: #62,045 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Medwid #62,045, 323 people Medwid: #62,045 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Medwid #62,045, 323 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Medwid is more common than 61.8% of them.

    Origin

    From Carpathian Rusyn, Ukrainian and Serbo-Croatian surname, all from derivatives of Proto-Slavic *medvědь (“bear”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 323 people named Medwid in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 955,869 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 309.

    #62,045
    rank among US surnames
    323
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #60,887)

    Who is named Medwid

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    99% of people named Medwid identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 99%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    Medwid has the Soundex code M330, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M330.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Medwid come from?
    From Carpathian Rusyn, Ukrainian and Serbo-Croatian surname, all from derivatives of Proto-Slavic *medvědь (“bear”).
    How common is the surname Medwid?
    323 people in the United States had the surname Medwid in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 955,869 Americans. It ranked 62,045th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Medwid?
    In the 2010 Census, 99% of people named Medwid identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Medwid getting more or less common?
    More common. 309 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 323 in 2010, up 4.5%.
    What are other spellings of Medwid?
    Medvid and Medved.