Magdaline
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magdaline is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 61K◐
- USUnited States1 in 392K
- GLGreenland1 in 661
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈915 ●
- Sources
- 117 ●
- 1 in 188K ◐
across 8 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | 1,200 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Magdaline | 28 |
| US United States | — | 849 | 6.7K rec. | 1 in 392K | 849 | Magdaline | 117 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 449 | 434 rec. | — | — | Magdaline | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 365 | 342 rec. | — | — | Magdaline | 25 |
| AU Australia | — | 276 | 254 rec. | — | 1 | Magdaline | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | 117 | 117 rec. | — | 1 | Magdaline | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 100 | 49 rec. | — | — | Magdaline | 13 |
| PH Philippines | — | 89 | 70 rec. | — | — | Magdaline | 8 |
| GL Greenland | #128 | 88 | 0 rec. | — | 65 | Magdaline | 3 |
| KE Kenya | — | 55 | 35 rec. | — | — | Magdaline | 14 |
| IN India | — | 42 | 31 rec. | — | 14 | Magdaline | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | 39 | 41 rec. | — | — | Magdaline | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili16K53%
- English9.4K31%
- Spanish7342%
- 6582%
- French4081%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 16,182 | 53% |
| English | 9,445 | 31% |
| Spanish | 734 | 2% |
| 658 | 2% | |
| French | 408 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1904 | 9 |
| 1905 | 6 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 10 |
| 1909 | 6 |
| 1910 | 11 |
| 1911 | 11 |
| 1912 | 16 |
| 1913 | 21 |
| 1914 | 11 |
| 1915 | 26 |
| 1916 | 32 |
| 1917 | 26 |
| 1918 | 28 |
| 1919 | 22 |
| 1920 | 35 |
| 1921 | 36 |
| 1922 | 32 |
| 1923 | 32 |
| 1924 | 32 |
| 1925 | 21 |
| 1926 | 33 |
| 1927 | 27 |
| 1928 | 29 |
| 1929 | 19 |
| 1930 | 27 |
| 1931 | 18 |
| 1932 | 24 |
| 1933 | 26 |
| 1934 | 14 |
| 1935 | 16 |
| 1936 | 14 |
| 1937 | 13 |
| 1938 | 11 |
| 1939 | 10 |
| 1940 | 17 |
| 1941 | 11 |
| 1942 | 13 |
| 1943 | 14 |
| 1944 | 9 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 13 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1948 | 12 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 8 |
| 1951 | 14 |
| 1952 | 12 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 7 |
| 1955 | 12 |
| 1956 | 9 |
| 1957 | 11 |
| 1958 | 14 |
| 1959 | 20 |
| 1960 | 13 |
| 1961 | 12 |
| 1962 | 16 |
| 1963 | 14 |
| 1964 | 14 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 9 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 11 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 12 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 107 years between 1904–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Lady Mariegold Fitzalan-Howardb. 1919GBnot in their usual name(1919-2006)
- Magdaline Jepkorir Chemjorb. 1978KEKenyan distance runner
- Magdaline PamNGNigerian 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 26 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 849 | #13,943 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2012 | 87 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2013 | 86 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2011 | 86 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2014 | 84 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2015 | 81 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2016 | 80 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2017 | 77 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2018 | 75 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2019 | 72 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2020 | 69 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2021 | 65 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 151 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Magdaline?
- We estimate roughly 915 people bear Magdaline (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Magdaline have the most bearers?
- Magdaline is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled magdaline.
- How common is Magdaline compared with other names?
- In Greenland, Magdaline is the 128th most common given name of 418 given names recorded there.
- Is Magdaline a male or female name?
- Magdaline 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magdalineThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Magdaline” — the 128th most common given name in Greenland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.