Given name & surname
Mag
“resembling a pearl”·“the child of light”
Mag is a variant of Margaret. Interpretations include “resembling a pearl” and “the child of light”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mag is a variant of Margaret. Interpretations include “resembling a pearl” and “the child of light”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1884. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mag through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1924. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 278 as a first name in 2020; 180 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mag’s family of names
Mag has a related form in Margaret. In English usage, Mag has a conventional equivalent in the German form Grete. In English usage, Mag has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Мег.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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