Girl name#898 of girl names
Magnolia
Pronounced M AE0 G N OW1 L Y AH0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 145 years in use
How popular is Magnolia?
Magnolia is a girls' name, and has been in the record since the data starts in 1880. It has been given to 21,154 children — the 898th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about eight times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 2,146 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- M AE0 G N OW1 L Y AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 010
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Magnolia
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Magnolia
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Magnolia?
- Magnolia ranks 898th among girls' names in US records, with 21,154 births since 1880. Over the past decade it accounts for 13,821.
- Is Magnolia a unisex name?
- No. Magnolia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Magnolia most popular?
- 2024, when 2,146 children were given the name. It has been in use for 145 years and is still recorded as of 2024.