Magen

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables.

Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list

Magen by the numbers

Its American peak was 226 babies in 1985, making it a 1980s name.

What we can tell you about Magen

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Magen. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Marenof the sea; feminine form of Marinus463 in the US (2017)
  • Mavenexpert or connoisseur98 in the US (2017)
  • Magan
  • Mabellovable1,527 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Meganpearl; a form of margaret624 in the US (2017)
  • Makenahappy one205 in the US (2017)

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