Magda

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Magda: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Magda: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 15 years, it reached #295 in 1952, and it stood at #5,687 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#295highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Magda's record

Absent from every published list for 15 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1999	#2770
2000	#2746
2004	#4598
2005	#3970
2006	#5061
2007	#3667
2008	#5545
2009	#2759
2010	#4012
2011	#3549
2012	#4838
2013	#2887
2014	#2862
2015	#3615
2016	#5785
2017	#3583
2018	#3985
2019	#5591
2020	#3899
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 25 of the 51 years from 1945 to 1995.

In 2010: #910 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4012 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #306 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1995
Highest recorded position: #295 among girls in Norway, in 1952 (recorded 1945–1995).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #5687 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Magda appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 134 births with the name.

Magda across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Magda's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#306 (1945)	#295 (1952)	#585 (1995)	25 of 51	134 (1945–1995)	10 (1952)
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#2746 (2000)	#5687 (2023)	21 of 27	102 (1997–2023)	8 (2009)

Magda by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Magda in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	30	5 of 10	6
1950s	32	6 of 10	5
1960s	6	1 of 10	6
1970s	4	1 of 10	4
1980s	40	8 of 10	5
1990s	22	4 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Magda appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #295 in Norway in 1952.

Magda's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2887	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#585	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#583	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#474	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#667	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#629	5	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#578	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#620	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#564	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#669	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#562	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#654	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#650	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#627	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#416	6	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#427	5	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#437	4	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#430	4	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#425	4	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#295	10	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#371	5	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#372	5	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#344	6	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#390	4	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#335	7	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#306	8	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2023, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #295, first reached in 1952.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in Norway in 1952.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 15 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 65 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maeve · #25, 62y
Mafalda · #3536, 13y
Magdalena · #71, 64y
Maggie · #79, 35y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Marissa · #294, 44y
Ailis · #293, 46y
Yasin · #297, 51y
Nada · #292, 46y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Bertha · #295, 11y
Sigvald · #295, 15y
Gyda · #296, 47y
Leikny · #294, 16y

Magda was ranked #295 in Norway · Girls in 1952. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Magda and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Magda without appearing here.

Magda moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2862 and #5691.
Rian Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2862 and #5691.
Dianne Compare
In 2008 they stood at #5545 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2759 and #5556.
Kristy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2862 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Magda

Amalie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #985.
Frida Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #1836.
Liv Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #1836.
Dylan Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #2278.

Moved the opposite way to Magda

Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Magda went from #306 to #585 while Anna went from #38 to #6.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Magda went from #306 to #585 while Cecilie went from #359 to #42.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Magda went from #306 to #585 while Christine went from #253 to #66.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Magda went from #306 to #585 while Elise went from #223 to #25.

Moved the same way as Magda

Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Magda went from #306 to #585 and Annie from #180 to #479.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Magda went from #306 to #585 and Åse from #25 to #230.
Astrid Compare
Between 1945 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Magda went from #306 to #585 and Astrid from #12 to #81.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Magda went from #306 to #585 and Aud from #13 to #481.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #295 in Norway in 1952. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Magda

Magda at a glance

What stands out in Magda's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Magda across 2 official records

Magda by decade in Norway · Girls

Magda appears in

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Magda at a glance

What stands out in Magda's record

Magda across 2 official records

Magda by decade in Norway · Girls

Magda appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Magda

Magda and the names beside it

Magda moved ahead of

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