Mága

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mága is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Tulajdonságra utaló vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzménye ősi, finnugor eredetű mag szavunk.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 39K(measured from records)
  • HUHungary≈1 in 65K
  • PLPoland1 in 72K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

534 people, 2026

Sources
27 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Típusa: Tulajdonságra utaló vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzménye ősi, finnugor eredetű mag szavunk. Ennek jelentése a növényi termésen kívül lehetett ’sperma, ivadék, leszármazott, gyermek’, továbbá olyan állat vagy növény, amely kiválósága miatt szaporításra alkalmasnak látszott, vetésre, tenyésztésre való volt. E sokirányú jelentése tette alkalmassá személynévként való használatára. Igen sokan szimbolikusan (aki képes fönntartani a családot) vagy metaforikusan (olyan, mint a legnemesebb magnak hagyott növény vagy állat) kapták az Árpád-korban. A Mag személynév sokszor megkapta az -a kicsinyítő képzőt vagy birtokjelet. Ez a toldalékolt (Maga) forma vált gyakran családnévvé. Az első szótag magánhangzójának nyúlása (-a- > -á-) a hangsúly hatására akkor ment végbe, amikor elvesztette a név a közszói és becenévi jelentését. Elterjedtsége: A Maga családnév a Dunán túl, a Mága pedig a Tiszántúl északi részén gyakoribb.

Sources 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mága counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Mága is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland5341 in 72K276——
IN India5301 in 2.5M530—1
US United States4761 in 699K564—3
HU Hungary≈150 est.≈1 in 65K—Mága27
BR Brazil1071 in 2M107——
UY Uruguay861 in 39K86——
SE Sweden271 in 378K27—1
CZ Czechia261 in 412K26——

534 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mága is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Nigeria, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Maga, Magae, Magä, Magá, Magã

  • Slovak surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Maga, Màgâ, Magã

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mága under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mága mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Tulajdonságra utaló vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzménye ősi, finnugor eredetű mag szavunk.
In which country does Mága have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 534 people named Mága, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Mága most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mága is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mága?
In Poland, the national register counted 534 people named Mága in 2026, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Mága”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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