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The medina Surname

medina Name Meaning and History

Spanish: habitational name from any of the several places, as for example Medina-Sidonia in Cádiz province and Medina del Campo in Valladolid, so called from Arabic medina ‘city’. The surname is also borne by Sephardic Jews.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The medina name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the medina family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of medina Families in the US in 1920
Number of medina families
 264-526
 89-263		 1-88
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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