Magdalene is a female first name.
Magdalene is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,645 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,644 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Magdalene.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Magdalene annualy. This means that there have been girls named Magdalene who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Magdalene have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Magdalene even more than any other time: in 1904, it holds its present record of #414 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Magdalene was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Magdalene has never been ranked higher than #414. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,548 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 121 girls named Magdalene were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Magdalene were born, there have been 30 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Magdalene, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to women and girls named Magdalene. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Magdalene living in one state or another. If your name is Magdalene and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Kentucky, which has the most people named Magdalene relative to the population, you still have to ask 7,540 women and girls their names before you hear Magdalene as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With nine letters, the name Magdalene is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Magdalene and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Magdalene, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Magdalene sounds like this:
