Magdolna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Magdalene
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɒɡdolnɒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magdolna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 217(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 67K
- HRCroatia1 in 157K
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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 217 (inferred from the name graph)
45,005 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
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)
a female given name, equivalent to English Magdalene
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magdolna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | — | 45,005 | 1 in 217 | 45K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 239 | 1 in 1.4M | 237 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 152 | 1 in 67K | 152 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 51 | 1 in 339K | 51 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 27 | 1 in 157K | 27 | Magdolna | 9 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 9 | 1 in 234K | 9 | — | 1 |
| RS Serbia | #888 | — | — | listed | Magdolna | 11 |
45,005 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Magdolna Purglyb. 1881PTHungarian noble (1881-1959)
- Magdolna Forrób. 1904HUHungarian physicist (1904–1995)
- Magdaléna Štrompachováb. 1919HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-Slovak painter and restorer (1919-1988)
- Magdolna Nyári-Kovácsb. 1921HUfencer (1921–2005)
- Magdolna Hargittaib. 1945HUHungarian chemist
- Magda Marosb. 1951HUnot in their usual nameHungarian fencer
- Magdolna Menszátorb. 1951HUHungarian actress
- Mariska Hargitayb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, producer, and philanthropist (born 1964)
- Bibi Blueb. 1979HUnot in their usual nameHungarian adult model and actress, born 1979
- Magdi Rúzsab. 1985HUnot in their usual nameSerbian-born Hungarian singer
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Magdolna mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Magdalene Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Magdolna?
- In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Lena and Magali are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Magdolna?
- A machine transcription gives /mɒɡdolnɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- How common is the name Magdolna?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 45,005 people named Magdolna in 2025, about 1 in 217 residents.
- How common is Magdolna compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Magdolna is the 888th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
- Is Magdolna a male or female name?
- Magdolna 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 Magdolna have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 45 thousand people named Magdolna, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Magdolna most common?
- Magdolna is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 217 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Magdolna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magdolnaThe 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, “Magdolna” — the 888th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.