Magnum
Magnum reached its high-water mark in 2008 at number 5,249, and has been recorded 272 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 270 Magnums are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Magnum
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 272
- Estimated living today
- 270
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 5,249th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1981
How old the living Magnums are
born that year still alive today
Of the 272 babies given the name since 1981, about 270 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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 Magnums
- Magnum (born 1982)Brazilian association football player
- Magnum T.A. (born 1959)American professional wrestler
People named Magnum with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Magnum peaked:
Related names
Magnum against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.