Magalong

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/məɡəlɒŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Magalong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

299 people, 2010

Record sources
40 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos

Cited for this meaning 1

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Magalong 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 Magalong is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2991 in 1.1M327Magalong40
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——
PH Philippines———Magalong27
FR France———Magalong18
IT Italy———Magalong3
AO Angola———Magalong3
RE Réunion———Magalong1

299 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Magalong is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Thailand

    Also written มากาลอง, Makalong

30 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Magalong is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, A surname in Pangasinan

    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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
  • Benjamin Magalongb. 1960PHFilipino civil servant and former policeman; mayor of Baguio City since 2022

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)
FormalDear Magalong,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Magalong
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020327#65,511
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010299#66,164
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000244#73,931
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#203,077
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Magalong mean, and where does it come from?
Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Magalong?
A machine transcription gives /məɡəlɒŋ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Magalong have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 299 people named Magalong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magalong.
Where is Magalong most common?
Magalong is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Magalong?
In the United States, the national register counted 299 people named Magalong in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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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, “Magalong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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