girls:
19k births since 1880
#1070 (81st percentile)
overall:
19k births since 1880
#1864 (76th percentile)
The name Magnolia is the #1,864 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,991 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,070 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 18,991 births since 1880.
Magnolia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Magnolia is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Magnolia reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 85.7% percentile (ranked #135) with 1,096 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,110 births per million (ranked 85.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Magnolia is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #142 (85.1% percentile) with 1,110 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Magnolia".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Magnolia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.4% confident that Magnolia is pronounced as mag-NOHL-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mag-NOH-lee-uh, at 17.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AE0 G N OW1 L Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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