Magda
Magda was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,850 among girls’ names; 2,870 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,540 Americans named Magda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 32 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Magda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Magda mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Magda is “a female given name”
/ˈma.ɡi.dɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Magda?
#9,850 among girls’ names, 2025
Magda rose from #10,589 in 2015 to #9,850 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 6.2 per million.
76 babies in 1966, the peak
Magda peaked in 1966, when 76 girls were given it, #1,235 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,850 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,825 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,563 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,839 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,776 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,789 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,029 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,283 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,127 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,808 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,589 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,915 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,865 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,466 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,874 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,746 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,070 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,275 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,990 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,647 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,030 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,883 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,179 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,439 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,073 | 25.5 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,939 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,367 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,536 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,273 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,997 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,248 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,191 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,658 | 25.4 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,207 | 33.1 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,680 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,545 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,430 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,469 | 24.7 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,417 | 24.7 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,489 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,628 | 21.5 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,547 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,258 | 25.7 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,622 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,073 | 30.0 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,268 | 26.5 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,964 | 33.0 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,409 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,407 | 24.1 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,041 | 29.3 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,720 | 37.7 |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,678 | 37.5 |
| 1973 | 68 | #1,438 | 46.6 |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,439 | 44.7 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,720 | 31.9 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,378 | 43.5 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,552 | 35.0 |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,568 | 32.9 |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,486 | 34.5 |
| 1966 | 76 | #1,235 | 44.9 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,476 | 32.3 |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,698 | 24.8 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,664 | 24.9 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,548 | 27.0 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,779 | 20.8 |
| 1960 | 45 | #1,686 | 22.3 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,428 | 28.2 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,891 | 16.9 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,671 | 20.5 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,953 | 15.4 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,195 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,860 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,769 | 17.0 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,740 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,218 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,839 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,798 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,906 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,847 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,559 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,972 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,271 | 6.8 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,608 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,241 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,880 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,072 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,726 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,663 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,584 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,070 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,387 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,900 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,383 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,329 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,548 | 7.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,728 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,593 | 5.3 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,164 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,064 | 6.1 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,791 | 19.7 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,701 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,374 | 29.4 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,563 | 23.5 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,401 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Magda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Magda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Magda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Magda, and how old are they?
2,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 2,870 Americans ever recorded as Magda. The median Magda alive today is 47 years old; half are between 32 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 9,387 people named Magda (9,365 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,539 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Magda rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 466 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 825 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 669 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 383 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 162 |
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 Magda born?
The states with the most babies named Magda are California, New York and Texas, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 484 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 479 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 473 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 43 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Magda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Magda is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Magda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Magda
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 Magda and names like it
- Compare Magda and DeeannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMagda peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Magda since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Magda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Magda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Magda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.