Magor
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A large village in Magor with Undy community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4287)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məˈɡɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 137K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 139K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 160K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 137K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from W. magwyr ‘wall’; earliest citation: B24-.186, Fasti Cist. Camb., Richard Magor.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
How Magor is read(measured from records)
Magor is one spelling over 5 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.
- English58%
A large village in Magor with Undy community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4287).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Magor in Hindi.
- Welsh8.3%
from W. magwyr ‘wall’; earliest citation: B24-.186, Fasti Cist. Camb., Richard Magor.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
- Hebrew8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Magor in Hebrew.
- Swahili6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Magor in Swahili.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Magor 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Magor | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 349K | listed | Magor | 68 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Magor | 56 |
| IN India | 149 | 1 in 8.9M | 149 | Magor | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Magor | 9 |
| SN Senegal | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 139K | 2 | — | 3 |
| IL Israel | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Magor | 7 |
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: the welsh-surnames-morgan-1985 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)
Magor is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, fool
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)
- Philip Magorb. 1881British polo player (1881–1971)
- Frank Magorb. 1886AUAustralian rules footballer (1886-1951)
- Doug Magorb. 1947Australian rules footballer (1947-1969)
- Liz Magorb. 1948CACanadian artist (born 1948)
- Elysha MagorAUAustralian association football player
- Brad G MagorCAresearcher
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 149 | #21,721 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 32 | #2,753 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #3,066 |
| GB United Kingdom | Welsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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 Magor come from?
- from W. magwyr ‘wall’; earliest citation: B24-.186, Fasti Cist. Camb., Richard Magor. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Magor?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈɡɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Magor mean?
- In English, A large village in Magor with Undy community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4287).
- In which country does Magor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 191 people named Magor in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magor.
- How common is the name Magor?
- In India, the national register counted 149 people named Magor, about 1 in 8.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magorThe 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, “Magor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.