Magdelena
Magdelena was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 367 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Magdelena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Magdelena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,686, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1993, the peak
Magdelena peaked in 1993, when 15 girls were given it, #6,135 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,686 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,794 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,237 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,794 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,707 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,505 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,864 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,205 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,360 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,867 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 10 | #11,114 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,533 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,043 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,962 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,286 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,896 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,266 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,978 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,891 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,361 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,878 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,339 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,919 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,135 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,195 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,448 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,301 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,444 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,721 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,231 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,145 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,407 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,576 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,952 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,604 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,098 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,823 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,133 | 2.8 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,281 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,842 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,673 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,373 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,756 | 3.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,717 | 2.9 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,076 | 3.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,263 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,290 | 4.3 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,752 | 21.5 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,483 | 25.6 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,577 | 23.5 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,106 | 38.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Magdelena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Magdelena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Magdelena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Magdelena, and how old are they?
An estimated 320 Americans named Magdelena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 619 people named Magdelena (616 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 315 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 31,048 babies since 1880, Magdelena is the fourth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 485 babies recorded by SSA was a Magdelena (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Magdelena and names like it
- Compare Magdelena and MagdalenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMagdelena peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Magdelena since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Magdelena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Magdelena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.