Shem Tov Boy's nameIn Israel: hardly given today
MidyanIn Hebrew: מדין · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: מִדְיָןRomanization: midyán
Midyan (Hebrew: מדין) is a boy's name. 48 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
- People in Israel
- 48
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- —
- not in the list
- Peak year
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- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Midyan
In Hebrew letters the name is מדין, read right to left. Midyan is the Latin spelling recorded in Wiktionary; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "midyán" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- a male given name, Midian
- Midian (a biblical location in northwest Arabia)
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Midyan by year in Israel
How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Midyan
How do you write Midyan in Hebrew?
Midyan is written מדין in Hebrew (with vowel points: מִדְיָן). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "midyán".
How many people in Israel are named Midyan?
48 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name מדין: 8 women and 40 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.
Is Midyan a boy's or a girl's name?
In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 83.3% of the people named מדין are men.
What does the name Midyan mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male given name, Midian"
Sources
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.