Magaš
surname · Latin script
Meaning: »patuljak, starmali« (Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
Magaš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Magaš is also written Μαγκας in Greek and Магас in Cyrillic.
- HRCroatia1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 60K
- CACanada≈1 in 340Kfew records
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 Magaš itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Magaš in other scripts: Greek and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Magas in US United States, PH Philippines, CA Canada and 4 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)»patuljak, starmali«
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Magaš is found
(measured from records)Magaš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Magas | 22 |
| HR Croatia | 598 | 1 in 7.1K | 598 | Magaš | 26 |
| US United States | 278 | 1 in 1.2M | 278 | Magas | 136 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Magas | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 344K | — | Magas | 52 |
| GR Greece | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Magas | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | Magas | 1 |
| GY Guyana | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Magas | 1 |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Boris Magašb. 1930HRCroatian architect (1930–2013)
- Ljubomir Magašb. 1948RSSerbian criminal (1948–1986)
- Damir Magašb. 1953HRCroatian geographer and university teacher
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Magaš mean, and where does it come from?
- »patuljak, starmali« Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Magaš?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Magaš in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magas. After it come Croatia, United States, Indonesia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Magaš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Magaš is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 7.1 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Magaš?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 598 people named Magaš in 2021, about 1 in 7.1 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/maga%C5%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, “Magaš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.