Magda

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~2,600 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #9,457 among girls
Births in 2025: 10 2,870 since 1880
Typical age: 46 years, median

Magda popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1888–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1966 is the peak year for Magda, with 76 births. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1888. The 2025 position is #9,457, on 10 births.

It slipped 2815 places against the previous year.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Magda?

Roughly 2,600 Magdas are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 2,870 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Magda?

The typical living Magda is 46 years old. More of them were born in the 1970s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Magda a late 20th-century name.

Your Magda

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Magda

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Magda Szabó	Hungarian writer, poet and translator	1917–2007	39
Magda Schneider	German actress	1909–1996	29
Magda Linette	Polish female tennis player	1992	27
Magda Julin	Swedish figure skater	1894–1990	24
Magda Frank	Hungarian-Argentine sculptor	1914–2010	24
Magda Apanowicz	Canadian actress	1985	21
Magda Olivero	Italian opera soprano	1910–2014	21
Magda el-Sabahi	Egyptian film actress and producer	1931–2020	18

Photo credits (7)

Magda Szabó — Bahget Iskander http://iskander.hu/, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Magda Schneider, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Magda Linette — si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Magda Julin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Magda Apanowicz — ~Ealasaid~, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Magda Olivero — Atomksk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Magda el-Sabahi — The original uploader was Bebo106 at Arabic Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Magda

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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