Magdalene
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magdalene is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Maria von Magdala; saint's name source for surnames.
- LALaos1 in 3.4K◐
- USUnited States1 in 9.8K
- DEGermany1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈568K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 244 ●
- 1 in 88 ◐
across 18 countries
recorded for this name
74K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Magdalena in SE Sweden, EC Ecuador, LA Laos, Magdalini in PL Poland, FI Finland and Μαγδαληνη in CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
from Maria von Magdala; saint's name source for surnames
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 434,117△ | 36 rec. | 1 in 88 | 434K | Magdalini | 6 |
| US United States | — | 33,979 | 43K rec. | 1 in 9.8K | 34K | Magdalene | 244 |
| ES Spain | — | 30,167△ | 210 rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 32K | Magdalene | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 21,626 | — | 1 in 495 | 22K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 21,085△ | 57 rec. | 1 in 484 | 21K | Magdalena | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 10,190 | 9.2K rec. | — | 1 | Magdalene | 104 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 7,066△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 7.1K | Magdalena | 5 |
| HR Croatia | — | 6,119 | — | 1 in 691 | 6.4K | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | 4,370 | 6.7K rec. | — | — | Magdalene | 52 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,714 | 2.4K rec. | — | listed | Magdalene | 87 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 2,231 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Magdalene | 30 |
| FR France | — | 2,220△ | 486 rec. | 1 in 31K | 2.2K | Magdalene | 76 |
Roughly 434K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 88). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English51K53%
- Swahili13K13%
- German13K13%
- Spanish3.9K4%
- 1.9K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 50,951 | 53% |
| Swahili | 12,836 | 13% |
| German | 12,784 | 13% |
| Spanish | 3,853 | 4% |
| 1,865 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Magdalene is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, college, Cambridge Univ.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, English form; woman from Magdala.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Danish, a female given name of biblical origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1880 | 13 |
| 1881 | 14 |
| 1882 | 12 |
| 1883 | 10 |
| 1884 | 9 |
| 1885 | 20 |
| 1886 | 17 |
| 1887 | 16 |
| 1888 | 19 |
| 1889 | 16 |
| 1890 | 17 |
| 1891 | 33 |
| 1892 | 36 |
| 1893 | 34 |
| 1894 | 29 |
| 1895 | 29 |
| 1896 | 29 |
| 1897 | 27 |
| 1898 | 22 |
| 1899 | 26 |
| 1900 | 32 |
| 1901 | 28 |
| 1902 | 36 |
| 1903 | 33 |
| 1904 | 56 |
| 1905 | 35 |
| 1906 | 35 |
| 1907 | 47 |
| 1908 | 37 |
| 1909 | 63 |
| 1910 | 54 |
| 1911 | 71 |
| 1912 | 87 |
| 1913 | 74 |
| 1914 | 130 |
| 1915 | 151 |
| 1916 | 156 |
| 1917 | 183 |
| 1918 | 185 |
| 1919 | 178 |
| 1920 | 182 |
| 1921 | 174 |
| 1922 | 161 |
| 1923 | 199 |
| 1924 | 172 |
| 1925 | 141 |
| 1926 | 137 |
| 1927 | 127 |
| 1928 | 154 |
| 1929 | 111 |
| 1930 | 146 |
| 1931 | 123 |
| 1932 | 113 |
| 1933 | 116 |
| 1934 | 107 |
| 1935 | 103 |
| 1936 | 90 |
| 1937 | 69 |
| 1938 | 81 |
| 1939 | 62 |
| 1940 | 77 |
| 1941 | 70 |
| 1942 | 75 |
| 1943 | 68 |
| 1944 | 77 |
| 1945 | 47 |
| 1946 | 53 |
| 1947 | 51 |
| 1948 | 53 |
| 1949 | 48 |
| 1950 | 58 |
| 1951 | 53 |
| 1952 | 50 |
| 1953 | 57 |
| 1954 | 43 |
| 1955 | 44 |
| 1956 | 44 |
| 1957 | 33 |
| 1958 | 41 |
| 1959 | 34 |
| 1960 | 29 |
| 1961 | 30 |
| 1962 | 28 |
| 1963 | 31 |
| 1964 | 30 |
| 1965 | 25 |
| 1966 | 21 |
| 1967 | 26 |
| 1968 | 23 |
| 1969 | 30 |
| 1970 | 19 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1972 | 19 |
| 1973 | 18 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 28 |
| 1976 | 25 |
| 1977 | 25 |
| 1978 | 20 |
| 1979 | 30 |
| 1980 | 26 |
| 1981 | 23 |
| 1982 | 33 |
| 1983 | 33 |
| 1984 | 33 |
| 1985 | 39 |
| 1986 | 47 |
| 1987 | 32 |
| 1988 | 35 |
| 1989 | 38 |
| 1990 | 39 |
| 1991 | 34 |
| 1992 | 30 |
| 1993 | 51 |
| 1994 | 58 |
| 1995 | 45 |
| 1996 | 77 |
| 1997 | 64 |
| 1998 | 54 |
| 1999 | 78 |
| 2000 | 89 |
| 2001 | 82 |
| 2002 | 67 |
| 2003 | 92 |
| 2004 | 89 |
| 2005 | 115 |
| 2006 | 113 |
| 2007 | 96 |
| 2008 | 102 |
| 2009 | 106 |
| 2010 | 110 |
| 2011 | 107 |
| 2012 | 99 |
| 2013 | 126 |
| 2014 | 134 |
| 2015 | 116 |
| 2016 | 140 |
| 2017 | 109 |
| 2018 | 122 |
| 2019 | 89 |
| 2020 | 112 |
| 2021 | 90 |
| 2022 | 121 |
| 2023 | 140 |
| 2024 | 158 |
| 2025 | 165 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Magdalene of Lippeb. 1552DECountess of Lippe by birth, and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Magdalena of Waldeck-Wildungenb. 1558DEnot in their usual nameCountess of Hanau-Münzenberg, later Countess of Nassau-Siegen
- Magdalene of Nagasakib. 1611JPJapanese saint
- Auguste Magdalene of Hessen-Darmstadtb. 1657DEGerman noble and poet
- Magdalene Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfelsb. 1673DEDuchess of Saxe-Weissenfels by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Eisenach, (1673-1726)
- Marlene Dietrichb. 1901USnot in their usual nameGerman and American actress and singer (1901–1992)
- Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritzb. 1920DEnot in their usual nameGerman princess
- Irmgard Furchnerb. 1925DEnot in their usual namestutthof concentration camp personnel
- Ciaran Maddenb. 1947GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Magdalene St. Michaelsb. 1957MTpornographic actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 55 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.1K | #3,877 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 192 | #3,685 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 165 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 160 | #5,644 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 135 | #6,978 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 134 | #1,304 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 132 | #40 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 108 | #38 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 80 | #832 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 72 | #6,689 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2011 | 69 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2012 | 68 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 305 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Magdalene?
- We estimate roughly 568 thousand people bear Magdalene (counting its spellings and scripts) across 18 countries in our records.
- In which country does Magdalene have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 434 thousand people bear Magdalene in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled magdalini.
- Where is Magdalene most common?
- Magdalene is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 88 people carrying it.
- How common is Magdalene compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Magdalene is the 321st most common given name of 8,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Magdalene a male or female name?
- Magdalene is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Magdalene mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Maria von Magdala; saint's name source for surnames
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Magdalene” — the 321st most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.