Magan
Magan was last recorded in 2011, when 8 babies were given it; 2,739 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,660 Americans named Magan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Magan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Magan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,911, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
181 babies in 1990, the peak
Magan peaked in 1990, when 181 girls were given it, #1,003 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #12,911 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,922 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,173 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,511 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,614 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,738 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,866 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,533 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,037 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,267 | 23.9 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 44 | #3,175 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,840 | 28.1 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,767 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,382 | 33.4 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,182 | 36.2 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,029 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 93 | #1,607 | 52.9 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,665 | 50.4 |
| 1993 | 97 | #1,583 | 53.6 |
| 1992 | 138 | #1,254 | 74.8 |
| 1991 | 131 | #1,277 | 69.9 |
| 1990 | 181 | #1,003 | 95.3 |
| 1989 | 179 | #971 | 97.1 |
| 1988 | 173 | #964 | 97.1 |
| 1987 | 156 | #1,003 | 89.7 |
| 1986 | 168 | #946 | 97.9 |
| 1985 | 171 | #927 | 99.4 |
| 1984 | 122 | #1,131 | 72.5 |
| 1983 | 89 | #1,357 | 53.3 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,911 | 33.1 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,045 | 30.6 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,562 | 45.2 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,747 | 39.2 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,976 | 32.0 |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,012 | 31.3 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,156 | 27.3 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,590 | 20.6 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,599 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,409 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,052 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,607 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,989 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Magan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Magan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Magan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Magan, and how old are they?
2,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,739 Americans ever recorded as Magan. The median Magan alive today is 37 years old; half are between 32 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,759 people named Magan (2,652 women and girls, 107 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,682 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 324 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,910 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 428 |
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 Magan born?
The states with the most babies named Magan are Texas, Alabama and Louisiana, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 329 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 140 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Louisiana | 120 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 99 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 92 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 86 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 80 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 78 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 61 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Mississippi | 56 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Magan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Magan is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1968 it was given 3.2 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 Magan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,701 babies since 1880, Magan is the third most given (15% of them).
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 Magan
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 Magan and names like it
- Compare Magan and MaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMagan peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Magan since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Magan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Magan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.