Meaning not yet researched.
Magnus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 337 in 2025. Its best rank was #719 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #719 in 2017; #765 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Magnus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#765 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #719.
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Magnus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 337 boys in 2025. Peak: #719 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 354 (2021).
In 2025, 337 US boys were named Magnus, making it the 765th most common boys’ name of the year, down 18 places from #747 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 343 boys named Magnus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #719, reached in 2017. The most boys given the name in a single year was 354, in 2021. For comparison, it was #856 in 2015 and #2,938 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Magnus in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 5 babies. In all, 6,172 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,389 babies named Magnus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,214 US boys were named Magnus; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 354. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,068 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Magnus ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #248 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Magno 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Magno (28).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Magnus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #248 | — |
| Idaho | 7 | #360 | — |
| Oregon | 11 | #364 | #531 |
| Utah | 11 | #429 | #734 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #465 | #730 |
| Washington | 16 | #466 | #555 |
| Arizona | 14 | #515 | #653 |
| Kansas | 6 | #566 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #595 | #788 |
| Colorado | 9 | #605 | #860 |
| Iowa | 5 | #641 | — |
| Ohio | 14 | #662 | #1,164 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #683 | — |
| California | 37 | #725 | #805 |
| New York | 20 | #738 | #848 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #770 | #398 |
| Indiana | 7 | #818 | #980 |
| Missouri | 6 | #840 | #913 |
| Virginia | 8 | #848 | #853 |
| Texas | 28 | #907 | #1,136 |
| Florida | 15 | #941 | #1,241 |
| Michigan | 7 | #967 | #859 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #975 | #904 |
| Illinois | 8 | #985 | #952 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #988 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 337 | #765 |
| 2024 | — | — | 343 | #747 |
| 2023 | — | — | 338 | #763 |
| 2022 | — | — | 327 | #774 |
| 2021 | — | — | 354 | #730 |
| 2020 | — | — | 290 | #801 |
| 2019 | — | — | 299 | #781 |
| 2018 | — | — | 295 | #781 |
| 2017 | — | — | 335 | #719 |
| 2016 | — | — | 296 | #796 |
| 2015 | — | — | 263 | #856 |
| 2014 | — | — | 215 | #978 |
| 2013 | — | — | 209 | #959 |
| 2012 | — | — | 162 | #1,133 |
| 2011 | — | — | 154 | #1,164 |
| 2010 | — | — | 161 | #1,152 |
| 2009 | — | — | 125 | #1,374 |
| 2008 | — | — | 161 | #1,136 |
| 2007 | — | — | 143 | #1,234 |
| 2006 | — | — | 126 | #1,314 |
| 2005 | — | — | 114 | #1,331 |
| 2004 | — | — | 70 | #1,797 |
| 2003 | — | — | 87 | #1,494 |
| 2002 | — | — | 76 | #1,601 |
| 2001 | — | — | 79 | #1,537 |
| 2000 | — | — | 47 | #2,161 |
| 1999 | — | — | 48 | #2,013 |
| 1998 | — | — | 47 | #2,032 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,795 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,989 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,428 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,702 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,608 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,952 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,996 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,315 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,998 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #5,056 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,634 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,340 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,524 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,837 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,943 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,852 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,372 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,676 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,324 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,369 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,169 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,407 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,874 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,537 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,296 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,270 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,336 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,653 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #3,011 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,938 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,600 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,432 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,103 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,820 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,733 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,785 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,773 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,540 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,179 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,272 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,289 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,717 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,772 |
| 1927 | — | — | 13 | #2,370 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,506 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,535 |
| 1924 | — | — | 15 | #2,180 |
| 1923 | — | — | 20 | #1,793 |
| 1922 | — | — | 15 | #2,198 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,326 |
| 1920 | — | — | 21 | #1,729 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,606 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,961 |
| 1917 | — | — | 21 | #1,621 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,909 |
| 1915 | — | — | 17 | #1,750 |
| 1914 | — | — | 19 | #1,423 |
| 1913 | — | — | 15 | #1,419 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,663 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,225 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,522 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,180 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,098 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,157 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,035 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,135 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,064 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,095 |
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).