Highest ever

Magnolia

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#124
2,233 girls
2015
#635
rank
1950
#1,401
rank

Magnolia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,233 in 2025. Its best rank was #124 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Magnolia in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#124 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
2,233
Since 1880
23,403
Years on record
145

Babies named Magnolia, every year since 1880

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Girls

Magnolia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,233 girls in 2025. Peak: #124 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 2,233 (2025).

About the name Magnolia

In 2025, 2,233 US girls were named Magnolia, making it the 124th most common girls’ name of the year, up 14 places from #138 in 2024. That is 78 more than the 2,155 girls named Magnolia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #124, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,233. For comparison, it was #635 in 2015 and #1,401 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Magnolia in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 23,403 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 11,815 babies named Magnolia.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,620 US girls were named Magnolia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,233. In 2025 that was about 1 in 720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Magnolia ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #29 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 16 states (counting DC).

Meaning

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 Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Magnolia by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 4 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Arkansas53#29#352
Alabama69#44#905
Tennessee111#46#345
Louisiana61#51#569
Georgia134#52#480
Mississippi34#54#469
Oklahoma51#54#636
Alaska10#55—
Kentucky60#56#448
South Carolina54#71#449
North Carolina124#71#511
Missouri71#74#460
West Virginia18#78#390
Vermont5#89—
Oregon35#92#337
Indiana66#93#747
Idaho20#101#269
Nebraska21#101—
Virginia68#105#573
Ohio95#107#564
Delaware8#109—
South Dakota10#111—
Kansas28#116#705
Florida150#116#726
Michigan66#125#756
Utah34#132—
Montana8#133—
Iowa24#133—
Maine8#143—
Maryland33#151#555
Wisconsin34#155#471
Colorado36#162#518
Washington43#167#626
Texas196#168#916
Pennsylvania63#176#620
Arizona31#224—
North Dakota5#230—
New Mexico7#237—
Illinois42#253#793
Nevada11#253—
New Hampshire5#258—
Connecticut13#261—
New York55#307#1,046
California104#316#945
Minnesota18#322#584
Massachusetts16#366#918
New Jersey16#490#693

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20252,233#124——
20242,155#138——
20231,953#145——
20221,885#151——
20211,966#140——
20201,623#176——
20191,323#237——
20181,048#314——
2017816#384——
2016618#507——
2015450#635——
2014336#825——
2013259#972——
2012221#1,123——
2011192#1,248——
2010166#1,390——
2009141#1,600——
2008141#1,613——
2007116#1,835——
2006100#1,998——
200574#2,396——
200466#2,544——
200358#2,728——
200266#2,436——
200175#2,182——
200072#2,203——
199933#3,685——
199838#3,268——
199730#3,772——
199634#3,401——
199525#4,172——
199429#3,750——
199328#3,838——
199219#5,181——
199120#4,923——
199015#6,006——
198915#5,718——
198810#7,468——
198618#4,462——
19857#8,881——
198416#4,639——
198312#5,666——
198222#3,715——
198114#5,129——
198017#4,437——
197914#4,984——
197824#3,246——
197717#4,162——
197614#4,497——
197517#3,872——
197411#5,200——
197322#3,078——
197213#4,432——
19719#5,814——
19708#6,123——
196910#4,903——
196811#4,379——
196715#3,425——
196611#4,101——
196519#2,885——
196419#2,973——
196319#2,922——
196218#2,990——
196119#2,909——
196012#3,831——
195910#4,194——
195825#2,290——
195724#2,323——
195629#2,031——
195527#2,088——
195425#2,163——
195347#1,434——
195231#1,808——
195142#1,458——
195043#1,401——
194943#1,417——
194845#1,379——
194747#1,351——
194651#1,215——
194548#1,137——
194443#1,216——
194345#1,209——
194253#1,084——
194147#1,078——
194077#815——
193948#1,032——
193856#953——
193751#985——
193657#906——
193581#756——
193453#950——
193385#707——
193277#772——
193169#827——
193094#721——
192976#812——
1928100#707——
1927117#668——
192687#775——
1925125#659——
1924121#678——
1923127#658——
1922150#586——
1921151#589——
1920127#642——
1919136#605——
1918146#591——
1917102#681——
1916131#588——
1915120#596——
1914115#523——
191389#539——
1912104#469——
191173#485——
191085#433——
190977#420——
190873#424——
190741#578——
190643#534——
190547#493——
190442#510——
190346#474——
190248#457——
190119#759——
190043#517——
189921#693——
189825#660——
189728#578——
189625#627——
189531#535——
189416#770——
189323#609——
189214#820——
189115#715——
18909#982——
188917#631——
188814#708——
188710#773——
188615#595——
18856#1,002——
18848#829——
18838#734——
18827#783——
188112#495——
18808#658——

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).