Magda
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: German; woman from Magdala; from Magdalene
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɣða/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.2K
- COColombia≈1 in 4.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Magda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- 1 in 970 (inferred from the name graph)
31,425 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Hebrew: short form of Magdalene, 'high tower'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Magda is read(measured from records)
Magda is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish32%
Abreviación de Magdalena.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Magda in Portuguese.
- English16%
German; woman from Magdala; from Magdalene
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- Arabic8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Magda in Arabic.
- Polish7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Magda in Polish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #596 | 31,425 | 1 in 6.7K | 35K | Magda | 143 |
| PL Poland | — | 18,399 | 1 in 2.1K | 18K | — | 3 |
| CO Colombia | #429 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 38 | Magda | 105 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 11,038 | 1 in 970 | 11K | — | — |
| PE Peru | #621 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Magda | 53 |
| GT Guatemala | #232 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Magda | 29 |
| GE Georgia | #257 | 3,023as მაგდა | 1 in 1.3K | 3K | Magda | 39 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 852 | 1 in 2.5K | 852 | — | 8 |
31,425 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); the co-datosgov-candidates register; MVČR — living population register 2017; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); SURS — resident population given 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)
Magda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hebrew: short form of Magdalene, 'high tower'.
as a nameAfrican Names
from the female personal name Magda, a short form of Slavic Magdalena, Hungarian Magdolna (see Maudlin).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Magda är ursprungligen en smekform till → Magdalena.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Magda Lupescub. 1895ROmistress and then third wife of King Carol II of Romania (1899-1977)
- Magda Staudingerb. 1902DELatvian biologist and botanist (1902-1997)
- Magda Schneiderb. 1909DEGerman actress (1909–1996)
- Magda Gaborb. 1915USHungarian-American socialite and television personality
- Magda Szabób. 1917HUHungarian writer, poet and translator (1917–2007)
- Magdaléna Vášáryováb. 1948SKnot in their usual nameSlovak actress, politician and diplomat
- Magda Szubanskib. 1961GBAustralian actress
- Sinéad O'Connorb. 1966IEnot in their usual nameIrish singer-songwriter and activist (1966–2023)
- Magda Apanowiczb. 1985CACanadian actress
- Magda Linetteb. 1992PLPolish female tennis player
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)
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 96 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 35K | #997 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 31K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31K | #789 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18K | #154 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 18K | #154 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 11K | #185 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 5.5K | #208 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 852 | #223 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 851 | #437 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 115 | #789 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 53 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 38 | #83 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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
- Where does the name Magda come from?
- Hebrew: short form of Magdalene, 'high tower'. Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Magda?
- In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Lena and Magali are forms of the same name in other languages; Mandica is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Magda?
- A machine transcription gives /maɣða/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Magda mean?
- In English, German; woman from Magdala; from Magdalene
- Is Magda a male or female name?
- Magda is a female 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 Magda have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Magda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magda.
- Where is Magda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Magda is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 970 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Magda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 31,425 people named Magda in 2022, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Magda compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Magda is the 596th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magdaThe 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, “Magda” — the 596th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.