Magnús

given name · Latin script

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026

/ˈmaknuːs/(recorded in a dictionary) Icelandic · from Wiktionary

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Magnús is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Benin it is the 13th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin magnus.

  • SESweden1 in 137(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 156
  • NONorway1 in 302

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

74,287 people

Record sources
302 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 137 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

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:

Locally spelled Magnus in SE Sweden, NO Norway, US United States and 1 more.

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)

Borrowed from Latin magnus.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Magnús 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 Magnús is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#27874,2871 in 13774KMagnus109
DK Denmark—18,3471 in 32018K—6
NO Norway#52418,0911 in 30268KMagnus78
US United States—4,3261 in 77K4.3KMagnus302
FI Finland—2,6301 in 2.1K4.4K—22
IS Iceland—2,2441 in 1562.4K—1
BJ Benin#13———Magnus11

74,287 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). 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)

Magnús is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Magnus

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, Benin, Norway

    Also written Magnus

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, Sweden, United States, Nigeria

    Also written Magnus

19 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Magnús Guðmundsson, b. 1879Magnus Magnusson, b. 1929Magnús Scheving, b. 1964

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHi Magnús,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Magnús mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin magnus. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
What are other forms of the name Magnús?
In the etymology graph, Mogens and Mauno are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Magnús?
In Icelandic /ˈmaknuːs/ (Wiktionary).
How common is the name Magnús?
In Sweden, the national register counted 74,287 people named Magnús, about 1 in 137 residents.
How common is Magnús compared with other names?
In Sweden, Magnús is the 278th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
Is Magnús a male or female name?
Magnús is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands, 2005).
Which countries have the most people named Magnús?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Magnús, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magnus. After it come Denmark, Norway, United States and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Magnús most common?
Magnús is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 137 people carrying it.

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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, “Magnús” — the 278th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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