Magara
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɑɠaɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, 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 132K
- UGUganda≈1 in 24K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
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.
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
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 in the world(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 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Magara | 26 |
| UG Uganda | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 2 | Magara | 17 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 1 | Magara | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Mağara | 13 |
| CN China | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Magara | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Magara | 17 |
| US United States | 106 | 1 in 3.1M | 123 | Magara | 58 |
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 123 | #139,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 106 | #153,769 |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #73 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Magara?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɠaɾa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Magara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Magara in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magara.
- 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 2026-10-10.