Magna
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: feminine singular of magno
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magna is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of magno
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Magna is read(measured from records)
Magna is one spelling over 2 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.
- Portuguese81%
feminine singular of magno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English78%
plural of magnum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Magna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 377 | Magna | 145 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Magna | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Magna | 32 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Magna | 3 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | Magna | 34 |
| BR Brazil | — | 19K | — | 108 |
| NO Norway | — | 502 | — | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 130 | — | 5 |
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; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Magna 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 Swedish, Magna är en femininform till → Magnus och ursprungligen en smekform till → Magnhild. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 5 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
name of a mountain (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In German, weibl. Vom., weibHche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Fuerza
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Magna Sunnerdahlb. 1863SESwedish philanthropist
- Magna Lykseth-Skogmanb. 1874SESwedish opera singer
- Magna Isaksenb. 1899NONorwegian missionary
- Magna Krugerb. 1962ZASouth African writer
- Dina Páucarb. 1969PEnot in their usual namePeruvian singer
- Magna Guzmán AvalosPEPeruvian pharmacist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 19K | #1,424 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 19K | #598 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 18K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 18K | #1,123 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 502 | #2,497 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 377 | #25,184 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2021 | 210 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 130 | #7,160 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 90 | #1,123 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 84 | #20,914 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 40 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 29 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Magna mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of magno Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Magna have the most bearers?
- Magna is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled magna.
What do you want to know about Magna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magnaThe 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, “Magna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.