Magen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Israel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 111K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 60K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 150K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
3,004 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Israel
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,004 | 1 in 111K | 3K | Magen | 248 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Magen | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 453K | — | Magen | 36 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 544K | — | Magen | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Magen | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 410K | — | Magen | 36 |
| SG Singapore | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Magen | 6 |
3,004 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Magen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, nickname from Magen 'stomach'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Patronymischer schwacher Genitiv zu einem germanischen Rufnamen; 27 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, stomach
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In enm, alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of mage
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)
- Karl Magenb. 1890PLpolitician (1890-1959)
- Danny Magenb. 1919ILIsraeli Chief Military Police Officer
- Rivka Magenb. 1934ILIsraeli educator
- Zvi Magenb. 1945ILIsraeli diplomat
- Mirah Magenb. 1950ILIsraeli author
- Sigal Magenb. 1964ILIsraeli poet
- Ze'ev Maghenb. 1964ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli academic
- Avner Magenb. 1968CACanadian computer scientist
- Anat Magen Shabob. 1975ILIsraeli voice actress
- Cesar MagenESresearcher
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 202 | #96,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 174 | #103,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 156 | #105,905 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Magen?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Magen mean, and where does it come from?
- Israel Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Magen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Magen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magen.
- Is Magen a male or female name?
- Magen 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.
- How common is the name Magen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,004 people named Magen in 2020, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magenThe 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, “Magen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.