Given name
Magdaléna
Magdaléna is a feminine given name. It is used in Czech and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Magdaléna comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
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How it developed
From Latin Magdalena, from Ancient Greek Μαγδαλένα, from Hebrew מגדל.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Magdaléna’s family of names
In Czech usage, Magdaléna has a diminutive in Magda. In French usage, Magdaléna shares an earlier linguistic root with Madeleine. In Czech usage, Magdaléna has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Magdalena.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Magdaléna has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
18 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Madeleinevariant · French
- Magdalenavariant · Czech, Polish
- Magdadiminutive · Czech
- Lenkadiminutive · Czech, Slovak
- Magduľkadiminutive · Slovak
- Magduškadiminutive · Slovak, Czech
- Magdalénkadiminutive · Slovak
- Magdinadiminutive · Czech
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MagdaleneEnglish
- MaddalenaItalian
- MadalenaPortuguese
- Magdalenequivalent
- MaudEnglish
- ΜαγδαληνήGreek
- МагдалинаRussian
- MagdolnaHungarian
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See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Magdaléna
- Magdaléna RybárikováSlovak female tennis playerborn 1988
- Magdaléna VášáryováSlovak actress, politician and diplomatborn 1948
- Magdaléna ŠtrompachováHungarian-Slovak painter and restorer (1919-1988)
- Magdaléna BorováCzech actressborn 1981
- Magdaléna PlatzováCzech writer, playwright, publicist and translatorborn 1972
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