Margai
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Sierra Leonean surname; borne by Milton Margai and Albert Michael Margai
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Margai is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain.
- Spain (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sierra Leonean surname; borne by Milton Margai and Albert Michael Margai
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Margai 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 24 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 18 | — | 3 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | 5 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | listed | — | — |
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the sl-ecsl-mp-nomination-gazette-2023 register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Margai is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
West Africa: African name
as a nameAfrican Names
In Portuguese, second-person plural imperative of margar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, synonym of pitkähäntäkissa
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)
- Milton Augustus Strieby Margaib. 1895SLSierra Leonean politician (1895-1964)
- Albert Margaib. 1910SLSierra Leonean Prime Minister (1910-1980)
- Charles Margaib. 1945SLSierra Leonean politician
- Albert Margaib. 1987SLSierra Leonean basketball player (born 1987)
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #74,674 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 18 | #51,666 |
| SL Sierra Leone | ECSL — 2023 Members of Parliament nomination Gazette No.29 (nominators) | 2023 | 5 | #10 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates | 2018 | 5 | #29 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables | 2012 | 3 | #22 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2012 parliamentary and Local Council nominated candidates | 2012 | 3 | #22 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #175,643 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Margai mean, and where does it come from?
- Sierra Leonean surname; borne by Milton Margai and Albert Michael Margai Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Margai have the most bearers?
- Margai is most frequently recorded in Spain.
What do you want to know about Margai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margaiThe 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, “Margai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.