Magen
Magen was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 3,346 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,260 Americans named Magen 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 Magen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Magen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,236, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
226 babies in 1985, the peak
Magen peaked in 1985, when 226 girls were given it, #757 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,236 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,233 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,573 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,072 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,276 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,231 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,752 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,082 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,236 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,859 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 47 | #3,083 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,830 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,494 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,358 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 75 | #2,000 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,713 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,694 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 99 | #1,542 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 112 | #1,428 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 146 | #1,189 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 155 | #1,140 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 175 | #1,045 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 222 | #874 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 193 | #928 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 202 | #874 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 197 | #864 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 197 | #847 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 226 | #757 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 147 | #984 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 100 | #1,255 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 79 | #1,521 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,761 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,594 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,866 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,813 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,889 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,698 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,388 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,599 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,754 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Magen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Magen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Magen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Magen, and how old are they?
3,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,346 Americans ever recorded as Magen. The median Magen alive today is 37 years old; half are between 32 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 3,004 people named Magen (2,985 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 308 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 605 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Magen born?
The states with the most babies named Magen are Texas, California and Florida, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 348 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 193 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 146 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 127 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Louisiana | 109 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 97 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 86 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 85 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 75 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 71 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Magen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Magen is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1970 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 Magen 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 17,876 babies since 1880, Magen is the second most given (19% 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 Magen
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 Magen and names like it
- Compare Magen and MaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMagen peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Magen since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Magen.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Magen alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.