Magdalena
The girl's name Magdalena has been in the national records since 1880, with 19,783 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 849th. About 16,000 Magdalenas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Magdalena boys named Magdalena
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,783
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 862nd
- Rank in 2025
- 849th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 19,773 / 10
How old the living Magdalenas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,783 babies given the name since 1880, about 16,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 4,800 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Magdalenas
- Magdalena Andersson (born 1967)Prime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022, Swedish politician and economist
- Magdalena Neuner (born 1987)former German biathlete
- Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017)Polish textile artist and sculptor
- Magdalena Tul (born 1980)Polish singer
- Anna Magdalena Bach (1701–1760)German singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Magdalena Forsberg (born 1967)Swedish biathlete and cross-country skier
- Magdalena Eriksson (born 1993)Swedish footballer
- Magdaléna Rybáriková (born 1988)Slovak female tennis player
People named Magdalena with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Magdalena is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Magdalena is most concentrated in New Mexico (4.2×), Texas (3.6×), North Dakota (3.2×), California (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Magdalena peaked:
Magdalena elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Magdalena | 62,129 birth registrations | 12th |
| Austria girls | Magdalena | 15,008 | 10th |
| France girls | Magdalena +1 spelling | 2,495 | 356th |
| Norway girls | Magdalena | 1,667 | 71st |
| England and Wales girls | Magdalena | 774 | 712th |
| Italy girls | Magdalena | 757 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Magdalena | 464 | 281st |
| Ireland girls | Magdalena | 125 | 285th |
| Belgium girls | Magdalena | 112 | 800th |
| Scotland girls | Magdalena | 33 | 424th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Magdalena | 3 | 439th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Magdalena: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Magdalena | 417 | 0.034% | 245th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Magdalena | 36 | 0.008% | 375th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Magdalena | 11 | 0.017% | 104th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Magdalena is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.05% of children were given it – 51 of them.
Magdalena: rank by region
In 2015, Magdalena was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Magdalena | 836 | 5 |
| Brussels | Magdalena | 301 | 5 |
In 2001, Magdalena was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Magdalena | 10 | 32 |
In 2025, Magdalena was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Magdalena | 93 | 17 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Magdalena | 90 | 8 |
| Lubelskie | Magdalena | 62 | 17 |
| Lubuskie | Magdalena | 81 | 6 |
| Łódzkie | Magdalena | 56 | 26 |
| Małopolskie | Magdalena | 47 | 72 |
| Mazowieckie | Magdalena | 56 | 78 |
| Opolskie | Magdalena | 48 | 13 |
| Podkarpackie | Magdalena | 72 | 13 |
| Podlaskie | Magdalena | 77 | 8 |
| Pomorskie | Magdalena | 81 | 21 |
| Śląskie | Magdalena | 57 | 49 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Magdalena | 55 | 10 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Magdalena | 68 | 10 |
| Wielkopolskie | Magdalena | 68 | 33 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Magdalena | 93 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Magdalena by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 109 | 150th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Magdalena among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Magdalena | 7,101 | 22,972 |
| Finland girls | Magdalena | 219 | 1,315 |
| the Netherlands boys | Magdalena | — | 625 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,315 who carry it, 219 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Magdalena lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 30,167 women called Magdalena were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Magdalena | 4,335 | 6.912 | 16 |
| Jaén | Magdalena | 978 | 3.133 | 66 |
| Lleida | Magdalena | 628 | 2.819 | 69 |
| Córdoba | Magdalena | 754 | 1.908 | 106 |
| Tarragona | Magdalena | 800 | 1.830 | 102 |
| Sevilla | Magdalena | 1,698 | 1.675 | 118 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Magdalena against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.