girls:
19.1k births since 1880
#1060 (81st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1982
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
19.1k births since 1880
#1854 (76th percentile)
The name Magdalena is the #1,854 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,128 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,060 (81.5% percentile) for all time with 19,118 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1982.
Magdalena has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1982 for boys).
The name Magdalena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Magdalena reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 33.2% percentile (ranked #628) with 158 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 285 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Magdalena ranks #666 for girls (29.7% percentile) with 168 births per million, which is 58.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Magdalena reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #691) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Magdalena".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Magdalena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.9% confident that Magdalena is pronounced as MAG-duh-LAY-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAG-duh-LEE-nuh, at 22.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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