Girl · French surname, through botanical Latin
Magnolia
Say it: mag-NOH-lee-uh
Meaning
From the flowering tree, named after the French botanist Pierre Magnol.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used in the American South around 1900, it returned in the 2010s.
Its wave through time
A revival, back after decades away
In the United States
- 13,168 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 1,000 girls
- 1,592 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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