Magal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məɡəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘wing’; also ‘hem’ (of a garment), ‘lap’, ‘protection, refuge’, ‘flank’ (cut of meat), plural ‘skirts’ (of a garment).
- CZCzechia≈1 in 332K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 390K
- USUnited States≈1 in 688K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 332K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘wing’; also ‘hem’ (of a garment), ‘lap’, ‘protection, refuge’, ‘flank’ (cut of meat), plural ‘skirts’ (of a garment)
Sources 1
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 688K | listed | Magal | 30 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Magal | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 64 | 1 in 3.3M | 78 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 390K | 1 | — | — |
| KE Kenya | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Magal | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 332K | 9 | — | — |
| ES Spain | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 5 | — | 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Magal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ‘wing’; also ‘hem’ (of a garment), ‘lap’, ‘protection, refuge’, ‘flank’ (cut of meat), plural ‘skirts’ (of a garment)
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In kld, knife
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 243 | #31,348 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 9 | #83,386 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 9 | #18,761 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5 | #168,693 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Magal mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘wing’; also ‘hem’ (of a garment), ‘lap’, ‘protection, refuge’, ‘flank’ (cut of meat), plural ‘skirts’ (of a garment) Recorded by Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- How do you pronounce Magal?
- A machine transcription gives /məɡəl/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Magal a male or female name?
- Magal 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 Magal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 484 people named Magal in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magal.
- How common is the name Magal?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 64 people named Magal in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Magal?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magalThe 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, “Magal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.