Magister
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: magister; an academic degree usually comparable to an M.A. or M.Sc
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maʒiste/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magister is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Slovenia.
- Slovenia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
no count published
Reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latinization meaning 'master, teacher'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Magister is read(measured from records)
Magister is one spelling over 4 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.
- French35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Magister in French.
- German25%
Latinization meaning 'master, teacher'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
magister; an academic degree usually comparable to an M.A. or M.Sc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English19%
Master; sir: a title used in the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a licence from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Magister in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Magister counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Magister is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Latinisierte Form zu Meister; im Text als verbreitet in der Lausitz erwähnt. Bearer count: 80.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In Norwegian Nynorsk, The possessor of the academic degree of magister, a historical equivalent of the doctorate (1479–1845 and 1921–2003)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, master, chief, head, superior, director, president, leader, commander, conductor
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)
- Sara MagisterITItalian art historian
- Tone MagisterSIresearcher
- Špela MagisterSIresearcher
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 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 101 | #4,372 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 28 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Magister come from?
- Latinization meaning 'master, teacher' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Magister?
- A machine transcription gives /maʒiste/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Magister mean?
- In German, magister; an academic degree usually comparable to an M.A. or M.Sc.
- In which country does Magister have the most bearers?
- Magister is most frequently recorded in Slovenia.
What do you want to know about Magister?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magisterThe 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, “Magister”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.