Magis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 242K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 21K
- UYUruguay1 in 85K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
557 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 557 | 1 in 21K | 557 | Magis | 34 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 242K | 32 | Magis | 134 |
| NL Netherlands | 95 | 1 in 182K | 95 | Magis | 15 |
| US United States | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | listed | Magis | 12 |
| IT Italy | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 687K | listed | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 577K | — | Magis | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
557 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Magis 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.
In English, The philosophy of striving to do more for Jesus Christ, associated with Ignatian spirituality and the Society of Jesus.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, more, the more, in a greater measure, to a greater extent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In itc-pro, comparative degree of *magnos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, magical
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)
- Marcel Magisb. 1965DEGerman author (1965-2018)
- Olivier Magisb. 1978BEFrench film director
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 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 557 | #2,683 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 484 | #3,188 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 95 | #19,778 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 44 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 20 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Magis?
- A machine transcription gives /maʒi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Magis have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 557 people named Magis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magis.
- Where is Magis most common?
- Magis is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Magis?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 557 people named Magis in 2008, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Magis?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magisThe 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, “Magis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.