Magara
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mɑɠaɾa/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Magara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 130K
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mağara in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus.
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.
How to pronounce Magara
- Swahili:/mɑɠaɾa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Magara is found
(measured from records)Magara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Magara | 26 |
| UG Uganda | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 2 | Magara | 17 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 1 | Magara | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Mağara | 13 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Magara | 17 |
| US United States | 106 | 1 in 3.1M | 123 | Magara | 58 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Mağara | 3 |
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; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Magara 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 scn, sorceress
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)- Lorna Magarab. 1966UGUgandan educator and administrator
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)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Magara?
- In Swahili /mɑɠaɾa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Magara?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Magara in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magara. After it come Uganda, Tanzania, Türkiye and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Magara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 106 people named Magara in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Magara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magaraThe 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, “Magara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.