Mede as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mede

What is the meaning of the name Mede ?

The baby name Mede is a Unisex name , 12 syllables long and is pronounced /miːd/ (MEED),/ˈmɛd.i/ (MED-ee).

Mede is English, Greek, Iranian in Origin.

Mede is a rare given name with several plausible roots. In English, it can reflect the surname Mead/Meade, from Old English mæd “meadow,” evoking open fields and pastoral calm. As a learned or heritage choice, Mede also echoes the ancient ethnonym for a person from Media (Latin Medi, Greek Mēdoi, Old Persian Māda-), an ancient Iranian people. As a clipped form, it may stand in for Medea (Greek Mēdeia), whose name is linked to mēdomai “to plan, to be cunning.”

Documented as an occasional forename in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English records - usually masculine via the Meade family name - Mede today is rare and reads as gender-neutral. Variants and relatives include Mead, Meade, Meads; feminine extensions such as Medea and Medeia; and cognates-by-meaning like Meadow, plus Meda (phonetically close). Meanings offered range from “meadow,” to “a Mede,” to “planner/counsel,” depending on the chosen lineage.