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Magda

#9,850 in 2025Girls' name

Woman from Magdala, through Magdalene

Magda has been given to 2,870 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #9,850 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1966, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Magda, 2025

1 in 332,000

Magda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Magda: meaning, origin, and history

Woman from Magdala, through Magdalene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Magda means

Magda belongs to the name family reached through Magda → Magdalene → Magdalena. Its meaning is “woman from Magdala”.

Origin, language, and formation

Magda is used in Afrikaans, Czech, Danish, Faroese, German, Hungarian, Polish and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Magdalena, Magdaléna and Magdalene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Magda is pronounced [ˈmaɡda].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,870 girls were recorded with the name Magda between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1966; its best national rank was #1,235 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,789 in 2020 to #9,850 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,589 in 2015 to #9,850 in 2025.

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 Magda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,850
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Magda 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Magda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Magdas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Magda was born before 1976 — so the typical Magda is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
19.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,655
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (545).

Is Magda 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
−3,025
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+939
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+739
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.2%
Peak was 1966 (76)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,235
1966

Spellings of Magda

Magda is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 32.7% against Magda's 0.12%.

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 Magda is used

Across 1910–2025, Magda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 37,939 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —

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. Magda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Magda around the world

Where Magda 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
    1997–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2011–2011
    #810
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2010–2010
    #910
    in 2010
  • France
    1905–2025
    #2,822
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1995
    #559
    in 1995
  • Canada
    1991–2014
    #3,202
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1953–1993
    #712
    in 1993

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

Notable people named Magda

People whose public names include Magda, 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.

Magda in other languages

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

MajidaMagdalaMagdalenMadelaineMagdalenaMagdaleneMagdolnaMagdaléna

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

Magda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,850
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 939
Best rank ever
#1,235
1966
Peak year
1966
76 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,870
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Magda

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

MagaliMaganMagalyMagenMaggyMagdalenMaggiMagicMagdalynMaghanMagentaMagieMagonMagdaleneMagnoliaMaggieMagaretMaguireMagabyMagdalenaMaginMagdalineMagalieMagalene

Names with a curve like Magda

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

DainaTomiLeeanneJeniseJohnaKendaMichelCristineDelanaJulieannTeresitaLianne

Sibling names for Magda

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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