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Magaly vs Magdaline

American parents have registered 5,288 Magalys since 1880, against 1,374 Magdalines. Magaly is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Magaly against Magdaline, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Magaly Magdaline

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 121 years in which either name was published, Magaly for 69 years and Magdaline for 52 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Magaly Magdaline
Total US births 5,2881,374
Most in one year 16936
Babies in 2025 53under 5
Estimated living today 5,100620
Median age today 2554
Peak year 20011921
Best rank 1,206th girls1,298th girls
Rank in 2025 3,067thunranked
First recorded 19511904
Girls / boys 5,288 / 01,374 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Magdalines alive today are over 54; half the Magalys are over 25. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Magaly and Magdaline.