MAgaRo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: nickname from Sicilian maggarw ‘sorcerer’, ‘wizard’, from Latin magus, Greek magos

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

MAgaRo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 93K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 823K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 207K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
153 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Derivation of MAgaRo: each step is the form the one above it came from.
MAgaRo
  1. Sicilianmaggarw(measured from records)
  2. Latinmagus(measured from records)

nickname from Sicilian maggarw ‘sorcerer’, ‘wizard’, from Latin magus, Greek magos.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

MAgaRo 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 MAgaRo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,200 est.≈1 in 93K—MAgaRo22
US United States4041 in 823K404MAgaRo153
TZ Tanzania≈140 est.≈1 in 406K—MAgaRo5
AR Argentina871 in 523K87MAgaRo23
GB United Kingdom≈67 est.≈1 in 986K—MAgaRo11
NZ New Zealand≈24 est.≈1 in 207K—MAgaRo1
PA Panama≈7 est.≈1 in 576K—MAgaRo2

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

MAgaRo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Magaró, Magarò

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Magarò

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, France

    Also written Mag-Aro, Magarò, Mâgärò

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines

    Also written Magarò, Magaro', Magaró

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Palestine

    Also written Magarò

29 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)

MAgaRo 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 bik, tame; domesticated; docile

    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)

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 Ms Magaro,
InformalHi Magaro,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting MAgaRo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010404#51,512
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020373#58,695
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000369#52,714
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—87—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 MAgaRo mean, and where does it come from?
nickname from Sicilian maggarw ‘sorcerer’, ‘wizard’, from Latin magus, Greek magos. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce MAgaRo?
A machine transcription gives /məɡɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does MAgaRo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named MAgaRo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled MAgaRo.
How common is the name MAgaRo?
In the United States, the national register counted 404 people named MAgaRo in 2010, about 1 in 823 thousand 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, “MAgaRo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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