Magela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɡɛlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 886K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,268 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | #200 | 1,268 | 1 in 2.7K | 1.3K | Magela | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | 239 | 1 in 886K | 325 | Magela | 93 |
| US United States | — | 171 | 1 in 1.9M | 169 | Magela | 63 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Magela | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 57 | 1 in 877K | 57 | Magela | 40 |
| CU Cuba | #395 | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Magela | 14 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 637K | 1 | Magela | 14 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Magela | 8 |
1,268 people counted by INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Magela J. Lisboa Martínezb. 1959UYUruguayan lyricist
- Magela Pregob. 1960UYUruguayan writer
- Magela Ferrerob. 1966UYUruguayan visual artist, singer, and writer
- Magela Zanottab. 1972UYUruguayan actor
- Magela Baudoinb. 1973VEBolivian author
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.3K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 325 | #18,758 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 239 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 215 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 177 | #12,753 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 176 | #15,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 169 | #42,229 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 163 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 144 | #22,399 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 105 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 95 | #22,399 |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Magela?
- A machine transcription gives /maɡɛlɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Magela a male or female name?
- Magela 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.
- In which country does Magela have the most bearers?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Magela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magela.
- Where is Magela most common?
- Magela is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Magela?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 1,268 people named Magela, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Magela compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Magela is the 200th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Magela?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magelaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Magela” — the 200th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.