Magnolia
loc · Latin script
Meaning: French; a flower named after botanist Pierre Magnol
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magnolia is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French; a flower named after botanist Pierre Magnol
Sources 1
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Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Magnolia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magnolia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8.7K | Magnolia | 248 |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | Magnolia | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Magnolia | 46 |
| DE Germany | — | — | Magnolia | 32 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Magnolia | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9.9K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 570 | — | 22 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Magnolia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A tree or shrub in any species of the genus Magnolia, many with large flowers and simple leaves.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Linné a donné le nom de magnolia à une plante originaire d’Amérique afin d’honorer la mémoire de Pierre Magnol (1638-1715), médecin et botaniste français qui avait imaginé un classement de plantes par familles.
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In English, The flower name; from Latin magnolia.
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In German, weibl. Vom. nach der Blumenbe zeichnung. Die Magnolie wurde nach dem französischen Botaniker Pierre Magnol (17./
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Flor del mismo nombre
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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Magnolia Willis Sealyb. 185415 Jun 1854 - uncertain 1933
- Magnolia Howellb. 1983USTrinidadian sprinter and artist
- Lorenzo Magnoliab. 2000ITItalian film director
- Magnolia ScudieriITItalian art historian
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 61 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.9K | #2,202 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.7K | #2,693 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 8.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 8.6K | #1,895 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.2K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 570 | #4,165 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 501 | #2,137 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 43 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42 | #1,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #2,693 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 1 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Magnolia mean, and where does it come from?
- French; a flower named after botanist Pierre Magnol Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Magnolia have the most bearers?
- Magnolia is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled magnolia.
What do you want to know about Magnolia?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magnoliaThe 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, “Magnolia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.