Magdalina

Girls' name

Form of Magdalene

Magdalina has been given to 127 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Magdalina, 2018

1 in 703,000

Magdalina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Magdalina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Magdalene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Magdalina means

Magdalina is a form of Magdalene.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Magdalina is used in Old Church Slavic and Bulgarian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Magdalene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 127 girls were recorded with the name Magdalina between 1914 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,971 in 1914.

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 Magdalina?

Magdalina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018: 1 in 703,000; 5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only: 1 in 340,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 487,541 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Magdalina 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Magdalina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Magdalinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Magdalina was born before 1987 — so the typical Magdalina is around 38 today.

Median birth year: 1987; About 38 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 37.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 110; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Magdalina 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1989 (9)
Years since peak: 36; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,971; 1914

Spellings of Magdalina

Magdalina is not the most common spelling — Magdalena is, with 39.8% against Magdalina's 0.26%.

Magdalena39.8%19,773
Magdalene20.1%9,994
Madaline10.0%4,990
Migdalia8.6%4,298
Magdalen6.6%3,267
Adalina4.7%2,335
Magdaline2.8%1,374
Maddalena1.8%881

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.

Magdalina around the world

Where Magdalina 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.

France
1980–2009
#6,114
in 2009
South Australia
1956–2000
#727
in 2000

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Magdalina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,971; 1914
Peak year: 1989; 9 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2018
All-time count: 127
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Magdalina

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

Sibling names for Magdalina

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

For a sister

Stephani Ashli Felisha Jalisa Britany Chantelle Leandra Lissette

For a brother

Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick Lauren Hakeem Demario Jerrell Arron

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