Meaning not yet researched.
Magdalen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #506 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #506 in 1887; #7,358 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Magdalen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,358 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #506.
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Magdalen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #506 in 1887 · most girls in one year: 92 (1915).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Magdalen, making it the 7,358th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,418 places from #10,776 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 9 girls named Magdalen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #506, reached in 1887. The most girls given the name in a single year was 92, in 1915. For comparison, it was #4,813 in 2015 and #3,842 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Magdalen in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 3,267 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 579 babies named Magdalen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 157 US girls were named Magdalen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Madeleine (45,737 babies since 1880), Magdalena (19,783 babies since 1880), Magdalene (9,994 babies since 1880) and Magda (2,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Magdelyn and Magdelin are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Magdelyn (203), Magdelin (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Magdalen in the open dataset we use.
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 | 15 | #7,358 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,776 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,370 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,504 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,773 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,437 | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,400 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,562 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,438 | — | — |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,695 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,813 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,976 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,422 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,497 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,659 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,550 | — | — |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,176 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,066 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,046 | — | — |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,671 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,447 | — | — |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,781 | — | — |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,950 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,198 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,473 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,330 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,263 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,806 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,514 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,126 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,021 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,227 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,860 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,742 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,904 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,145 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,157 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,669 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,201 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,150 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,767 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,869 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,846 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,824 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,115 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,992 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,801 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,365 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,109 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,273 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,127 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,167 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,715 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,936 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,193 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,753 | — | — |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,174 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,842 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,526 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,264 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,906 | — | — |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1928 | 44 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1924 | 69 | #915 | — | — |
| 1923 | 53 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1922 | 60 | #965 | — | — |
| 1921 | 64 | #933 | — | — |
| 1920 | 84 | #788 | — | — |
| 1919 | 62 | #898 | — | — |
| 1918 | 74 | #835 | — | — |
| 1917 | 63 | #870 | — | — |
| 1916 | 87 | #729 | — | — |
| 1915 | 92 | #691 | — | — |
| 1914 | 62 | #733 | — | — |
| 1913 | 35 | #907 | — | — |
| 1912 | 46 | #743 | — | — |
| 1911 | 28 | #821 | — | — |
| 1910 | 30 | #789 | — | — |
| 1909 | 21 | #898 | — | — |
| 1908 | 26 | #762 | — | — |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1906 | 26 | #726 | — | — |
| 1905 | 25 | #724 | — | — |
| 1904 | 22 | #766 | — | — |
| 1903 | 19 | #801 | — | — |
| 1902 | 28 | #635 | — | — |
| 1901 | 30 | #571 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #908 | — | — |
| 1899 | 26 | #613 | — | — |
| 1898 | 18 | #805 | — | — |
| 1897 | 26 | #607 | — | — |
| 1896 | 18 | #777 | — | — |
| 1895 | 28 | #571 | — | — |
| 1894 | 31 | #522 | — | — |
| 1893 | 20 | #652 | — | — |
| 1892 | 16 | #750 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #634 | — | — |
| 1890 | 18 | #631 | — | — |
| 1889 | 9 | #936 | — | — |
| 1888 | 12 | #773 | — | — |
| 1887 | 20 | #506 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #870 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #889 | — | — |
| 1884 | 12 | #631 | — | — |
| 1883 | 12 | #573 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #782 | — | — |
| 1880 | 7 | #716 | — | — |
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).