MEANING & HISTORY
What does Medardo mean?
Medardo belongs to the Medardus and French Médard name family. The older Germanic name has a clear hard or brave second element, while the first has competing explanations involving power, honour or other material.
Saint Medardus helped transmit the name. The exact family relationship is firmer than one unconditional power-and-strength translation.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
SpanishEtymology & source
a male given name
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People with the name Medardo
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Medardo Felipe
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Medardo Felipe
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Medardo in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Medardo
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Edgardo♂Form of Edgar; wealth and spear
- Eduardo♂Guardian of wealth
- Gerardo♂Spear and boldness
- Abelardo♂Romance form of the philosopher Abélard’s name
- Adelardo·Form of Adalhard; noble and bold
- Bernardo♂Bear and brave; form of Bernard
- Cardo♂Short form of Ricardo; brave ruler-name family
- Kardo♂Clipping of Ricardo
What rhymes with Medardo?
Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.
Explore Medardo further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q104370560 — Medardo (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Medardo Felipe (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q104370560 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Medardo (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Medardo (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Wiktionary: Médard, citing Roberto Faure, Diccionario de nombres propios (opens in a new tab)
Explicit Spanish/Italian cognate Medardo, Latin Medardus chain, secure hard/brave element and disputed first element.
- Si dice in molti modi: onomastic discussion of Medardo (opens in a new tab)
Academic exact-name discussion citing Rossebastiano/Papa: Germanic hardhu and uncertain first element; medieval/Latin forms and saint-name transmission.