Magdalen
Magdalen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 506th, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191592 births
- Best rank
- #506in 1887
- Since 1880
- 3,251people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,251 girls have been named Magdalen in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 92 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 92 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Magdalen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 94 | |
| 1890s | 219 | |
| 1900s | 228 | |
| 1910s | 579 | |
| 1920s | 548 | |
| 1930s | 252 | |
| 1940s | 154 | |
| 1950s | 138 | |
| 1960s | 77 | |
| 1970s | 55 | |
| 1980s | 95 | |
| 1990s | 186 | |
| 2000s | 338 | |
| 2010s | 230 | |
| 2020s | 58 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Magdalen was the 691st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Magdalen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Almapeak 1918
- Selmapeak 1918
- Elsiepeak 1918
- Agnespeak 1918
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Florencepeak 1918
- Lillianpeak 1920
- Ednapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.