Magdolna
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Magdolna is a given name, most frequently recorded in Hungary. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script.
- HUHungary1 in 183◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- HRCroatia1 in 120K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | 638,627 | 99% |
| US United States | 2,678 | 1% |
| DE Germany | 298 | 1% |
| HR Croatia | 231 | 1% |
| GB United Kingdom | 220 | 1% |
≈642,054 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian637K99%
- English5.3K1%
- German4051%
- Croatian2311%
- Spanish1961%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 636,560 | 99% |
| English | 5,281 | 1% |
| German | 405 | 1% |
| Croatian | 231 | 1% |
| Spanish | 196 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 134 |
| 2000 | 131 |
| 2001 | 131 |
| 2002 | 128 |
| 2003 | 127 |
| 2004 | 122 |
| 2005 | 123 |
| 2006 | 126 |
| 2007 | 120 |
| 2008 | 118 |
| 2009 | 118 |
| 2010 | 116 |
| 2011 | 117 |
| 2012 | 116 |
| 2013 | 112 |
| 2014 | 111 |
| 2015 | 108 |
| 2016 | 107 |
| 2017 | 104 |
| 2018 | 101 |
| 2019 | 99 |
| 2020 | 93 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Magdolna Purglyb. 1881PTHungarian noble (1881-1959)
- Magdaléna Štrompachováb. 1919HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-Slovak painter and restorer (1919-1988)
- Magdolna Nyári-Kovácsb. 1921HUfencer (1921–2005)
- Magdolna Hargittaib. 1945HUHungarian chemist
- Magda Marosb. 1951HUnot in their usual nameHungarian fencer
- Magdolna Menszátorb. 1951HUHungarian actress
- Mariska Hargitayb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, producer, and philanthropist (born 1964)
- Bibi Blueb. 1979HUnot in their usual nameHungarian adult model and actress, born 1979
- Cathy Heavenb. 1980HUnot in their usual nameHungarian pornographic actress
- Magdi Rúzsab. 1985HUnot in their usual nameSerbian-born Hungarian singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 83 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Magdolna?
- Our records include 642,054 bearers of Magdolna across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Magdolna have the most bearers?
- Magdolna is most frequently recorded in Hungary.
- Is Magdolna a male or female name?
- Magdolna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Magdolna”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.