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Migdalia

#10,634 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Migdalia has been given to 4,303 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #10,634 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 229 recorded.

Babies named Migdalia, 2025

1 in 368,000

Migdalia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Migdalia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Migdalia means

Migdalia is a given name.

The naming story behind Migdalia

Wikidata records Migdalia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q96478060, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,298 girls were recorded with the name Migdalia between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 229 in 1961; its best national rank was #665 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,787 in 2020 to #10,634 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Migdalia between 1966 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1966; its best national rank was #4,332 in 1966.

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.

How common is Migdalia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,634
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Migdalia 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Migdalia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Migdalias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Migdalia was born before 1965 — so the typical Migdalia is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,266
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (1,638).

Is Migdalia 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
+2,385
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,153
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
3.9%
Peak was 1961 (229)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#665
1959

Spellings of Migdalia

Migdalia is the most-used spelling, taking 56.3% of the 7,636 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Migdalia56.3%4,298
  • Idalia43.7%3,338

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 Migdalia is used

Across 1910–2025, Migdalia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 23,582 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

019 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 5,263
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 11,111
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 20,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 25,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 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. Migdalia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Migdalia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,634
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,153
Best rank ever
#665
1959
Peak year
1961
229 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,298
Count in 2025
9

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,332
1966
Peak year
1966
5 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Migdalia

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

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Names with a curve like Migdalia

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

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Sibling names for Migdalia

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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