Magdeline
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magdeline is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 4.2K◐
- USUnited States1 in 676K
- BWBotswana1 in 14K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈502 ●
- Sources
- 93 ●
- 1 in 676K ◐
across 3 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #449 | 8,105 | 8.1K rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 29 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 708 | 331 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 23 |
| US United States | — | 492 | 4.1K rec. | 1 in 676K | 492 | Magdeline | 93 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 243 | 237 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 211 | 211 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 24 |
| FR France | — | 138 | 89 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 42 |
| AU Australia | — | 115 | 112 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 26 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | 95 | 70 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 8 |
| SG Singapore | — | 90 | 91 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 25 |
| CA Canada | — | 64 | 67 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 10 |
| KE Kenya | — | 61 | 22 rec. | — | — | Magdeline | 7 |
| IN India | — | 59 | 20 rec. | — | 14 | Magdeline | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English8.5K50%
- Swahili2.8K17%
- Spanish1.2K7%
- French5553%
- English (South Africa)5493%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 8,458 | 50% |
| Swahili | 2,812 | 17% |
| Spanish | 1,171 | 7% |
| French | 555 | 3% |
| English (South Africa) | 549 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 7 |
| 1913 | 5 |
| 1914 | 7 |
| 1915 | 14 |
| 1916 | 14 |
| 1917 | 15 |
| 1918 | 20 |
| 1919 | 12 |
| 1920 | 13 |
| 1921 | 13 |
| 1922 | 14 |
| 1923 | 17 |
| 1924 | 14 |
| 1925 | 11 |
| 1926 | 10 |
| 1927 | 9 |
| 1928 | 6 |
| 1929 | 8 |
| 1930 | 10 |
| 1931 | 8 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1933 | 12 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 6 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 8 |
| 1939 | 12 |
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1949 | 7 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1953 | 11 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1957 | 8 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1966 | 9 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 75 years between 1912–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Magdeline Moyengwab. 2001BWBotswana weightlifter (* 2001)
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 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 492 | #20,856 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 15 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #826 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 13 | — |
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 · 97 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Magdeline?
- We estimate roughly 502 people bear Magdeline (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Magdeline have the most bearers?
- Magdeline is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled magdeline.
- How common is Magdeline compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Magdeline is the 449th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Magdeline a male or female name?
- Magdeline 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.
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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, “Magdeline” — the 449th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.