Magot
surname · Latin script
Meaning: the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maɡo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magot is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 473K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 500K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 473K (inferred from the name graph)
91 people
Reference-verified
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magot 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 91 | 1 in 500K | 91 | — |
| PL Poland | 81 | 1 in 473K | 41 | — |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — |
91 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Magot 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 French, Il ne s’agit pas du « magot » au sens d’argent caché mais bien du singe sans queue ou de la figurine représentant un personnage pittoresque (avec, pour sens second, celui d’homme très laid). Dans ces sens, le mot dérive de Magog, nom propre qui apparaît dans l’Apocalypse (XX, 8) pour désigner les nations païennes situées au nord-est de l’Asie Mineure coalisées contre le peuple de Dieu.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In Romanian, Barbary macaque, magot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, maggot, bedbug
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, statue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, MAGÓT, magoți, s. m. Maimuță mare, fără coadă, care trăiește în nordul Africii și în regiunea Gibraltar (Macacus sylvanus).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Stéphane Magotb. 1971FRFrench politician
- Ajak Magotb. 1992USSouth Sudanese basketball player (born 1992)
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 91 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 41 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 41 | #57,422 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 40 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 40 | #57,933 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #105,615 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #14,616 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Magot mean, and where does it come from?
- the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Magot?
- A machine transcription gives /maɡo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Magot have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 91 people named Magot, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Magot most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Magot is densest in Poland — about 1 in 473 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Magot?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 91 people named Magot, about 1 in 500 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magotThe 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, “Magot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.