Magne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Magni (the son of Thor and Jarnsaxa)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɲ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 161K(measured from records)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2.9K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Magni (the son of Thor and Jarnsaxa)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Magne | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 765 | — | 2 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Magne | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 753 | 1 in 60K | 753 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 188 | 1 in 45K | 188 | — | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 58 | 1 in 58K | 58 | — | — |
| NO Norway | #183 | 34 | 1 in 161K | 24K | Magne | 120 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Magne 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 Swedish, Magne är ett nordiskt namn, bildat till ett ord motsvarande fornvästnordiskt magn ’kraft, styrka, makt’. I den nordiska mytologin är Magne Tors son. Namnet har varit populärt i Norge under 1900-talet. En känd namnbärare där är politikern Kjell Magne Bondevik (f. 1947).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of magnus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine plural of magno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, Magnus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, strong
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)
- Pierre Magneb. 1806FRFrench politician (1806–1879)
- Lucien Magneb. 1849FRFrench architect and art historian (1849–1916)
- Henri-Marcel Magneb. 1877FRFrench painter, architect and sculptor (1877-1944)
- Charles Magneb. 1897FRFrench politician
- Antonin Magneb. 1904FRFrench racing cyclist (1904–1983)
- Pierre Magneb. 1905FRroad bicycle racer (1905–1980)
- Michel Magneb. 1930FRFrench composer (1930-1984)
- Henri Magneb. 1953FRFrench racing codriver (1953–2006)
- Bruno Magneb. 1953FRFrench actor
- Grégory Magneb. 1976FRFrench screenwriter
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 49 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 765 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 753 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 188 | #6,619 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 58 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #33,151 |
Reference works 5
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Magne mean, and where does it come from?
- Magni (the son of Thor and Jarnsaxa) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Magne?
- A machine transcription gives /maɲ/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Magne?
- In the etymology graph, Manus, Magni and Maunu are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Magne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Magne in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magne.
- How common is the name Magne?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 753 people named Magne, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Magne compared with other names?
- In Norway, Magne is the 183rd most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Magne?
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/magneThe 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, “Magne” — the 183rd most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.