Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Magalie is an alternative form of Magali. Magali comes from Occitan.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Magalie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 270
- 0 boys · 270 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 10 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 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,227 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Magalie’s family of names
In French usage, Magalie has a related form in Magali. In French usage, Magalie has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form MAGALIA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Magalie
- Magalie PottierFrench racing cyclistborn 1989
- Magalie Lépine-BlondeauCanadian actressborn 1982
- Magalie MarcelinHaitian feminist, lawyer and actress1962–2010
- Magalie VaéFrench singerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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