Magá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magá is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly also a Polish nickname from a derivative of the dialect word magac ‘to wave’.
- USUnited States1 in 699K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 39K
- 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Magá itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
534 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maga in US United States, IN India, ZA South Africa.
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)
Possibly also a Polish nickname from a derivative of the dialect word magac ‘to wave’.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magá 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 534 | 1 in 72K | 276 | — | 2 |
| IN India | 530 | 1 in 2.5M | 530 | Maga | 20 |
| US United States | 476 | 1 in 699K | 564 | Maga | 159 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Maga | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 107 | 1 in 2M | 107 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 86 | 1 in 39K | 86 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 27 | 1 in 378K | 27 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 26 | 1 in 412K | 26 | — | — |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Magá 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 ifu, dryness of a land, of vegetation, or what happened to be wet insofar as the dryness is caused by the heat of the sun or the lack of rain
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Iloko, dry; neat, tidy
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pag, to dry, wither
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Magá mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly also a Polish nickname from a derivative of the dialect word magac ‘to wave’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary.
- Is Magá a male or female name?
- Magá is a male 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.
- In which country does Magá have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 534 people named Magá, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Magá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Magá 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 Magá?
- In Poland, the national register counted 534 people named Magá in 2026, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mag%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Magá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.