Magali
Feminine · “of Magdala”
Magali is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 3,562 girls against 6 boys since 1880.
Magali is Provençal, and it reached wide use the same way Mireille did — through a poem by Frédéric Mistral.
How old is the name Magali?
Magali first appears in US birth records in 1950 — 75 years ago. The typical Magali alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 3,500 people named Magali are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Magali most popular?
Magali peaked in 2000, reaching #1329 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 3,131 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Magdalena to Magali
The story of Magali
Mistral's Mirèio of 1859 contains a song called Magali, a courting dialogue in which the woman turns into a series of things to escape and the man into whatever will follow her — it became a standard Provençal folk song and carried the name across France. Mistral was reviving a language and the poem did that work too. Magali is used in France and Latin America and reaches American records from both.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Magdala; or pearl
Magali is generally taken as the Provençal form of Magdalene, from the town Magdala, a tower. A competing reading connects it to Margaret, a pearl. Neither is settled and both circulate in Provence.
How the name formed
- Magdalena
- Magali
Related forms: Magali · Magali · Magaly
Pronouncing Magali
mah-gah-LEE
Three syllables with the stress at the end in French. Spanish gives the same shape.
Nicknames for Magali
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1950
- Most girls named
- 2000142 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1329reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −11.4%31 in 2025, from 35
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Magali in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Magali in French — same name
- Magali in Provençal — same name
- Magaly in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Michigan.
Magalis among us
people named Magali are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Magali
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Magali
- #4460
- Magali on the 2025 chart
- #876
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Magali went to 31 girls in 2025, but Magaly is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 84, which makes it the 876th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,584 places above the chart.
- Magaly53
- Magali31
About 1 girl in 19,134 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Magali itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Laquinta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Magali's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Laquinta climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Laquinta's path sketches the road Magali is walking now.
Magali sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Magali is headed
Magali should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Magali beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Magali in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented literary and folk-song history behind it.
- Six letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- English readers do not know where the stress falls.
- Magali and Magaly are both in use and mark French and Spanish.
- The origin is genuinely argued between two candidates.
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Frequently asked
- How many Magalis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,500 people named Magali are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Magali?
- Magali is one of 2 recorded spellings. Magaly is the more common one — 53 births in 2025 against 31 for Magali.
- How popular is the name Magali in 2025?
- Magali ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Magali?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Magali — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Magali with classmates?
- Magali will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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