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Magali

#4,510 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Magdalene

Magali has been given to 3,568 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #4,510 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 142 recorded.

Babies named Magali, 2025

1 in 107,000

Magali over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Magali: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Magdalene

Occitan

What Magali means

Magali is a form of Magdalene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Magali → Magdalene. The family’s meaning is “woman from Magdala”, recorded in English with the source elements Magdalēnḗ.

Origin, language, and formation

Magali is used in French. Its origins include Occitan.

Magali comes through Occitan Magalí.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Magdalene and Marguerite.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Magali is pronounced /ma.ɡa.li/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,562 girls were recorded with the name Magali between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 142 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,330 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,230 in 2020 to #4,510 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,240 in 2015 to #4,510 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Magali between 1991 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1991; its best national rank was #7,859 in 1991.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Magali?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,510
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Magali sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Magali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Magalis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Magali was born before 1999 — so the typical Magali is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,562
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (1,051).

Is Magali rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−339
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−280
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,270
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.8%
Peak was 2000 (142)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,330
2000

Spellings of Magali

Magali is not the most common spelling — Malani is, with 15.6% against Magali's 7.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Magali is used

Across 1910–2025, Magali was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 37,762 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Magali has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Magali around the world

Where Magali ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    1901–2025
    #7,108
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1974–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Magali

People whose public names include Magali, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Magali in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Magali. Linked forms have their own page here.

MagalyMagalie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Magali by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,510
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 280
Best rank ever
#1,330
2000
Peak year
2000
142 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,562
Count in 2025
31

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,859
1991
Peak year
1991
6 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Magali

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Magali

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Magali, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChristiannaAzucenaAngelikaJacyMarahKalynnKeyannaKiahKristianaYessicaAnalisaTierney

Sibling names for Magali

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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