Meaning not yet researched.
Magdalene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 165 in 2025. Its best rank was #432 in 1904.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #432 in 1904; #1,345 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Magdalene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,345 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1904, at #432.
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Magdalene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 165 girls in 2025. Peak: #432 in 1904 · most girls in one year: 199 (1923).
In 2025, 165 US girls were named Magdalene, making it the 1,345th most common girls’ name of the year, up 73 places from #1,418 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 158 girls named Magdalene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #432, reached in 1904. The most girls given the name in a single year was 199, in 1923. For comparison, it was #1,808 in 2015 and #1,220 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Magdalene in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 9,994 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,558 babies named Magdalene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,246 US girls were named Magdalene; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 165. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,741 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Magdalene ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #581 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Madeleine (45,737 babies since 1880), Magdalena (19,783 babies since 1880), Magdalen (3,267 babies since 1880) and Magda (2,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Magdaline, Magdalyn and Magdeline 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: Magdaline (1,374), Magdalyn (651), Magdeline (624), Magdalynn (193), Magdelene (153).
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 Magdalene in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 9 | #581 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #766 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #854 | #948 |
| Indiana | 7 | #886 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,001 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,129 | #1,335 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,177 | #1,225 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,332 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,507 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,590 | #1,770 |
| California | 12 | #1,806 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,281 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 165 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 2024 | 158 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 2015 | 116 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2013 | 126 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2012 | 99 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 2011 | 107 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,805 | — | — |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,583 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,355 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,443 | — | — |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1953 | 57 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1950 | 58 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1948 | 53 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1946 | 53 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1945 | 47 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1944 | 77 | #870 | — | — |
| 1943 | 68 | #960 | — | — |
| 1942 | 75 | #911 | — | — |
| 1941 | 70 | #873 | — | — |
| 1940 | 77 | #814 | — | — |
| 1939 | 62 | #894 | — | — |
| 1938 | 81 | #780 | — | — |
| 1937 | 69 | #829 | — | — |
| 1936 | 90 | #704 | — | — |
| 1935 | 103 | #644 | — | — |
| 1934 | 107 | #648 | — | — |
| 1933 | 116 | #605 | — | — |
| 1932 | 113 | #631 | — | — |
| 1931 | 123 | #598 | — | — |
| 1930 | 146 | #565 | — | — |
| 1929 | 111 | #664 | — | — |
| 1928 | 154 | #570 | — | — |
| 1927 | 127 | #635 | — | — |
| 1926 | 137 | #608 | — | — |
| 1925 | 141 | #617 | — | — |
| 1924 | 172 | #557 | — | — |
| 1923 | 199 | #493 | — | — |
| 1922 | 161 | #566 | — | — |
| 1921 | 174 | #540 | — | — |
| 1920 | 182 | #521 | — | — |
| 1919 | 178 | #508 | — | — |
| 1918 | 185 | #500 | — | — |
| 1917 | 183 | #485 | — | — |
| 1916 | 156 | #529 | — | — |
| 1915 | 151 | #505 | — | — |
| 1914 | 130 | #488 | — | — |
| 1913 | 74 | #602 | — | — |
| 1912 | 87 | #519 | — | — |
| 1911 | 71 | #492 | — | — |
| 1910 | 54 | #561 | — | — |
| 1909 | 63 | #474 | — | — |
| 1908 | 37 | #635 | — | — |
| 1907 | 47 | #527 | — | — |
| 1906 | 35 | #606 | — | — |
| 1905 | 35 | #595 | — | — |
| 1904 | 56 | #432 | — | — |
| 1903 | 33 | #568 | — | — |
| 1902 | 36 | #541 | — | — |
| 1901 | 28 | #596 | — | — |
| 1900 | 32 | #628 | — | — |
| 1899 | 26 | #614 | — | — |
| 1898 | 22 | #709 | — | — |
| 1897 | 27 | #590 | — | — |
| 1896 | 29 | #574 | — | — |
| 1895 | 29 | #558 | — | — |
| 1894 | 29 | #541 | — | — |
| 1893 | 34 | #459 | — | — |
| 1892 | 36 | #457 | — | — |
| 1891 | 33 | #444 | — | — |
| 1890 | 17 | #659 | — | — |
| 1889 | 16 | #652 | — | — |
| 1888 | 19 | #588 | — | — |
| 1887 | 16 | #576 | — | — |
| 1886 | 17 | #550 | — | — |
| 1885 | 20 | #480 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #772 | — | — |
| 1883 | 10 | #638 | — | — |
| 1882 | 12 | #552 | — | — |
| 1881 | 14 | #462 | — | — |
| 1880 | 13 | #484 | — | — |
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).