Magnhild
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Magnhild anses vara ett tyskt lån, sammansatt av fornhögtyskt Magan-/Megin’kraft, styrka, makt’ och → -hild
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magnhild is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Norway.
- NONorway
- SESweden
- DKDenmark
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Magnhild anses vara ett tyskt lån, sammansatt av fornhögtyskt Magan-/Megin’kraft, styrka, makt’ och → -hild. I den rikssvenska almanackan 17 september och i den finlandssvenska 5 november.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Magnhild Haalkeb. 1885NONorwegian writer (1885-1984)
- Magnhild Hageliab. 1904NONorwegian politician (1904–1996)
- Ruth Anderssonb. 1908SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Aslaug Fadumb. 1925NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician (1925-2016)
- Magnhild Holmbergb. 1943NONorwegian politician (1943-2013)
- Magnhild Folkvordb. 1945NONorwegian journalist and writer
- Magnhild Meltveit Kleppab. 1948NONorwegian politician
- Magnhild Bruheimb. 1951NONorwegian writer
- Magnhild Mathisenb. 1953NONorwegian Sami politician
- Magnhild Opdølb. 1980NONorwegian visual artist
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(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Magnhild mean?
- Recorded meaning: Magnhild anses vara ett tyskt lån, sammansatt av fornhögtyskt Magan-/Megin’kraft, styrka, makt’ och → -hild.
- Is Magnhild a male or female name?
- Magnhild 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.
- In which country does Magnhild have the most bearers?
- Magnhild is most frequently recorded in Norway.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magnhildThe 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, “Magnhild”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.