Magg
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: medieval female given name Mag(ge), a pet form of Mar¬ garet (see Marguerite). Vars.; Mogg; Mudge (Devon). Maggs, Moxham. Metrs.: Magson, Megson; Mox(s)on, Mox(s)om, Maggi see Marguerite
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Magg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.1M
- ESSpain1 in 8.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
20 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
medieval female given name Mag(ge), a pet form of Mar¬ garet (see Marguerite). Vars.; Mogg; Mudge (Devon). Maggs, Moxham. Metrs.: Magson, Megson; Mox(s)on, Mox(s)om, Maggi see Marguerite
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
How Magg is read(measured from records)
Magg is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English62%
medieval female given name Mag(ge), a pet form of Mar¬ garet (see Marguerite). Vars.; Mogg; Mudge (Devon). Maggs, Moxham. Metrs.: Magson, Megson; Mox(s)on, Mox(s)om, Maggi see Marguerite
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- German23%
Patronymischer Familienname zu einem germanischen Rufnamen; im nd. Raum mit r-Schwund belegt. 411 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Magg 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | Magg | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 16 | 1 in 1.1M | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | 5 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
20 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Magg is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Maltese, mug (any large drinking vessel without a stem)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In liv, lie down
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Julius Maggb. 1884ATAustrian university teacher
- Alfons Maggb. 1891CH(1891-1967)
- Natasha Elizabeth Brichtb. 1905ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-born pianist (1905-1988)
- Alois Maggb. 1914DEGerman officer and Knight's Cross recipient
- Andreas Maggb. 1978DEGerman politician
- Vanessa Maggb. 1997ATAustrian handball player
- Kyril MaggUSAmerican flutist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 16 | #54,547 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #273,781 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Magg mean, and where does it come from?
- medieval female given name Mag(ge), a pet form of Mar¬ garet (see Marguerite). Vars.; Mogg; Mudge (Devon). Maggs, Moxham. Metrs.: Magson, Megson; Mox(s)on, Mox(s)om, Maggi see Marguerite Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Magg?
- A machine transcription gives /məɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Magg have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 20 people named Magg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magg.
- Where is Magg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Magg is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Magg?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20 people named Magg, about 1 in 11 million residents.
What do you want to know about Magg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maggThe 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, “Magg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.