Magret
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The breast meat of the mulard duck, known for its superior quality
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magret is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Malawi it is the 10th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- MWMalawi≈1 in 6.7K
- KEKenya≈1 in 10K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The breast meat of the mulard duck, known for its superior quality.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magret 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #677 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Magret | 34 |
| KE Kenya | #226 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Magret | 13 |
| MW Malawi | #10 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Magret | 8 |
| UG Uganda | #216 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Magret | 17 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Magret | 16 |
| ZM Zambia | #239 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Magret | 8 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 2 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 99 | 1 in 3.4M | 97 | Magret | 62 |
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; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Magret 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 Danish, past participle of magre
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)
- Guilhem Magretb. 1195French troubadour
- Ángeles Magret Viláb. 1896ESSpanish feminist
- Sebastià Salellas i Magretb. 1948ESSpanish politician, lawyer and professor (1948-2008)
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 25 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 97 | #53,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #53,461 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 2 | #22 |
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
- What does the name Magret mean, and where does it come from?
- The breast meat of the mulard duck, known for its superior quality. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Magret a male or female name?
- Magret is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Magret have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Magret in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magret.
- How common is the name Magret?
- In the United States, the national register counted 99 people named Magret in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
- How common is Magret compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Magret is the 677th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magretThe 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, “Magret” — the 677th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.