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
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.