Magret
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magret is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Malawi it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The breast meat of the mulard duck, known for its superior quality.
- MWMalawi1 in 236◐
- KEKenya1 in 1.6K
- ZMZambia1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈208 ●
- Sources
- 56 ●
- 1 in 129K ◐
across 7 countries
17K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
The breast meat of the mulard duck, known for its superior quality.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #228 | 18,435 | 637 rec. | — | — | Magret | 14 |
| NG Nigeria | #777 | 8,800 | 12K rec. | — | — | Magret | 34 |
| MW Malawi | #10 | 1,760 | 7 rec. | — | — | Magret | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,699 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Magret | 56 |
| ZM Zambia | #251 | 1,109 | 10 rec. | — | — | Magret | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 1,085 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Magret | 15 |
| IN India | — | 509 | 143 rec. | — | 3 | Magret | 12 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 467 | 98 rec. | — | — | Magret | 11 |
| AT Austria | — | 209 | 92 rec. | — | 21 | Magret | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 156 | 113 rec. | — | — | Magret | 24 |
| US United States | — | 97 | 412 rec. | 1 in 3.4M | 97 | Magret | 49 |
| UG Uganda | #215 | 96 | 18 rec. | — | — | Magret | 16 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili26K65%
- English6.5K16%
- Hindi3K7%
- German2.1K5%
- Spanish3821%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 26,150 | 65% |
| English | 6,488 | 16% |
| Hindi | 2,987 | 7% |
| German | 2,069 | 5% |
| Spanish | 382 | 1% |
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●
Magret is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, past participle of magre
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 |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1937 | 4 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 2 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 4 |
| 1944 | 8 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 10 |
| 1947 | 9 |
| 1948 | 13 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 7 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1954 | 18 |
| 1955 | 15 |
| 1956 | 15 |
| 1957 | 15 |
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1959 | 13 |
| 1960 | 12 |
| 1961 | 16 |
| 1962 | 10 |
| 1963 | 18 |
| 1964 | 20 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 14 |
| 1967 | 15 |
| 1968 | 21 |
| 1969 | 14 |
| 1970 | 10 |
| 1971 | 16 |
| 1972 | 16 |
| 1973 | 13 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 13 |
| 1976 | 18 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 13 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 4 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 24 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 21 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 12 |
| 1996 | 3 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 2012 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1920–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Guilhem Magretb. 1195French troubadour
- Ángeles Magret Viláb. 1896ESSpanish feminist
- Sebastià Salellas i Magretb. 1948ESSpanish politician, lawyer and professor (1948-2008)
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 25 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 97 | #53,461 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 79 | #9,984 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 78 | #32,812 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 78 | #32,674 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 36 | — |
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 · 173 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Magret?
- We estimate roughly 208 people bear Magret (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Magret have the most bearers?
- Magret is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled magret.
- How common is Magret compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Magret is the 228th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Magret a male or female name?
- Magret 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 Magret mean?
- Recorded meaning: The breast meat of the mulard duck, known for its superior quality.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Magret” — the 228th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.