MEANING & HISTORY
What does Medel mean?
The scholarly glossary to Libro de buen amor explicitly records Medel as another historical form of Emeterio. This establishes a named medieval Spanish relationship.
It does not settle Emeterio’s ultimate lexical root, and the spelling is retained rather than replaced with the more familiar modern form.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
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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 ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
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Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
MEDELCSV record 1,025 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Medel 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 Medel
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
- Mendel·Yiddish familiar forms of Manno and Menahem
- Abdel·Arabic Abd al: servant of the, in compound names
- Adel♂Germanic noble-name form; also Arabic just
- Del·Familiar form of Derek
- Fidel♂Faithful
- Gadel♀Rhyming formation from Adel
- Medin·Lion in a Macedonian Muslim naming account
- Mel♂♀Short form of Melvin, Melanie, Melissa and similar names
What rhymes with Medel?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
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- 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.
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Libro de buen amor, glossary (opens in a new tab)
Exact glossary statement connects Emeterio and historical Medel; the independently consulted indexed passage establishes the form relationship, not an ultimate literal root.