Name: Magnus
Gender: Male
Usage: Magnus, of latin origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Magnus are in general originating from Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Magnus is: Great.
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Numerology of the first name Magnus: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Magnus is ranked on the 2,388th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 159800 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.003% of the population. The name Magnus has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Magnus for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Magnus is 16 April.
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History and Origin
Magnus, meaning "great" in Latin, was sometimes used as a first name among Romans but was not particularly common among them. The best-known Roman bearing the name was the third-century usurper. The name gained wider popularity in the Middle Ages, various European peoples, and their royal houses, being introduced to it upon being converted to the Latin-speaking Catholic Christianity. This was especially the case with Scandinavian royalty and nobility.
As a Scandinavian forename, it was extracted from the Frankish ruler Charlemagne's Latin name "Carolus Magnus" and re-analyzed as Old Norse magn-hús = "house of might/power".
Magnus may refer to:
Scandinavian, Scottish, and English: originally a Latin byname meaning ‘great’, this was first extracted from the name of Charlemagne (recorded in Latin chronicles as Carolus Magnus ‘Charles the Great’) and used as a given name by the Scandinavians. It was borne by seven medieval kings of Norway, including Magnus I (1024–47), known as Magnus the Good, and Magnus VI (1238–80), known as Magnus the Law Mender. There are several early Scandinavian saints called Magnus, including an earl of Orkney (d. 1116), to whom Kirkwall cathedral is dedicated. The name was imported to Scotland and Ireland during the Middle Ages.
Vernacular forms: Danish: Mogens. Swedish: Måns. Scottish Gaelic: Mànas. Irish Gaelic: Maghnus (Anglicized as Manus). Finnish: Mauno.
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