girls:
69 births since 1973
#5647 (1st percentile)
boys:
345 births since 1980
#4241 (7th percentile)
overall:
414 births since 1973
#7325 (5th percentile)
The name Magic is the #7,325 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 414 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 5.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,241 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 345 births since 1980. For girls, it ranks #5,647 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1973.
Magic first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for girls and 1980 for boys). Birth data for Magic is available in 40 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (37 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Magic has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Magic were boys. Interestingly, until around 1980, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1973 to 1979), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (85.6% boys from 1980 to 2023).
For boys, Magic reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #906) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Magic ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 84.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Magic reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #956) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Magic".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Magic is pronounced as MA-jihk, which has 2 syllables.
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