Magali
Magali was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,510 among girls’ names; 3,568 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,470 Americans named Magali and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Magali by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Magali mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Magali is “a female given name from Occitan, a Provençal variant of Marguerite”
Borrowed from Occitan Magalí.
/ma.ɡa.li/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Magali?
#4,510 among girls’ names, 2025
Magali fell from #3,240 in 2015 to #4,510 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.6 to 19.3 per million.
142 babies in 2000, the peak
Magali peaked in 2000, when 142 girls were given it, #1,330 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,510 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,171 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,327 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,413 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,308 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,230 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,545 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,205 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,077 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,688 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,240 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,669 | 36.9 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,206 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,351 | 45.4 |
| 2011 | 78 | #2,384 | 44.3 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,664 | 38.3 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,818 | 34.3 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,347 | 43.9 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,949 | 55.1 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,889 | 56.8 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,959 | 53.0 |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,767 | 59.4 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,780 | 58.0 |
| 2002 | 121 | #1,555 | 67.3 |
| 2001 | 115 | #1,603 | 63.9 |
| 2000 | 142 | #1,330 | 78.2 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,989 | 44.5 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,858 | 47.0 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,775 | 48.8 |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,557 | 58.2 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,658 | 50.6 |
| 1994 | 114 | #1,409 | 63.8 |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,464 | 60.3 |
| 1992 | 110 | #1,447 | 59.7 |
| 1991 | 123 | #1,335 | 65.6 |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,494 | 54.8 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,932 | 36.3 |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,997 | 33.7 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,639 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,214 | 27.4 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,904 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,130 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,045 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,563 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,395 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,569 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,895 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,578 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,553 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,609 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,465 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,351 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,731 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,649 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,232 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,658 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,742 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,833 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,024 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,545 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,000 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,811 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,920 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,780 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,270 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,873 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,739 | 5.9 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,098 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,692 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,256 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,503 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,209 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,000 | 4.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,068 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Magali a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Magali has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 74 years of records.
Girls and boys named Magali: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Magali, and how old are they?
3,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,568 Americans ever recorded as Magali. The median Magali alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 5,853 people named Magali (5,829 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,340 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 136 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 278 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 483 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Magali born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,672 | 2.4× |
Where Magali is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Magali is most over-represented in California: since 1950 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Magali with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,236 babies since 1880, Magali is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 84 babies (37%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Magali
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Magali and names like it
- Compare Magali and MagalyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMagali peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Magali since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Magali.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Magali alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.