Meaning not yet researched.
Magda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,235 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,235 in 1966; #9,853 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Magda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,853 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #1,235.
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Magda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,235 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 76 (1970).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Magda, making it the 9,853rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,024 places from #6,829 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 17 girls named Magda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,235, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 1970. For comparison, it was #10,594 in 2015 and #3,841 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Magda in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 2,870 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 545 babies named Magda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 129 US girls were named Magda; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Magdalena (19,783 babies since 1880), Magdalene (9,994 babies since 1880), Madelaine (3,398 babies since 1880) and Magdalen (3,267 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian, Latvian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Magda in the open dataset we use.
Magda is listed as a nickname for Madeline, Magdelina.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,853 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,829 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,568 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,844 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,781 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,794 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,034 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,287 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,131 | — | — |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,811 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,594 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,920 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,870 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,470 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,879 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,749 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,076 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,278 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,994 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,648 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,035 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,887 | — | — |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,184 | — | — |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,944 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,373 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,539 | — | — |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,196 | — | — |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,686 | — | — |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1973 | 68 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1966 | 76 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1960 | 45 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,219 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,841 | — | — |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,974 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,272 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,881 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,074 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,665 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,385 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,331 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,730 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,595 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,166 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,066 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,401 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).