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Magni

Boys' name

Possibly might, strength

Magni has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 2020. 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 2022, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Magni, 2022

1 in 484,000

Magni over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Magni: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly might, strength

Norwegian and Old Norse

What Magni means

Magni may mean “might, strength”, associated with magn.

Origin, language, and formation

Magni is used in Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Norwegian and Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Magny, Magný, Magna and Magne.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Magni is pronounced [ˈmaɡnɪ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 boys were recorded with the name Magni between 2020 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2022; its best national rank was #10,449 in 2022.

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 Magni?

Magni had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 249,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Magni sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Magni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Magnis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Magni was born before 2021 — so the typical Magni is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Magni 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (7)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,449
2022

Spellings of Magni

Magni is not the most common spelling — Makai is, with 23.6% against Magni's 0.05%.

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.

Magni around the world

Where Magni 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
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Magni by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,449
2022
Peak year
2022
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Magni

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

MagedMagnoMagerAgniMaginMagdyMagikMagicMagaliMagilanMagizhanMagnumMaggieMagdalenaMagdielMaguireMagnusMagdaleno

Sibling names for Magni

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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