Magdaline
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Magdaline has been given to 1,374 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1921, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Magdaline, 2024
1 in 557,000
Magdaline over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Magdaline?
Magdaline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Magdaline sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Magdaline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Magdalines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Magdaline was born before 1937 — so the typical Magdaline is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 553
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (296).
Is Magdaline 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (36)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.4% average annual change
Spellings of Magdaline
Magdaline is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 76.8% against Magdaline's 0.51%.
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 Magdaline is used
Across 1910–2025, Magdaline was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 535,516 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Dakota1 in 33,333
- 2Kentucky1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
- 7South Carolina1 in —
- 8Texas1 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. Magdaline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Magdaline around the world
Where Magdaline 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.
- South Australia1967–1990#691in 1990
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Magdaline by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Magdaline
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Magdaline
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.