Magenta
#11,531 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Magenta has been given to 256 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #11,531 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Magenta, 2025
1 in 414,000
Magenta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Magenta?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,531
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Magenta sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Magenta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Magentas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Magenta was born before 2002 — so the typical Magenta is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 54.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 256
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (82).
Is Magenta 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
- +5,230
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,390
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 1998 (12)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.2% average annual change
Spellings of Magenta
Magenta is not the most common spelling — Makenna is, with 67.3% against Magenta'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.
Magenta around the world
Where Magenta 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 & Wales1996–2018#4,684in 2018
- South Australia1984–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Magenta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Magenta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Magenta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.