MEANING & HISTORY
What does Magdaleno mean?
A scholarly ICOS conference paper explicitly discusses Magdaleno as a masculine personal-name formation referring to María Magdalena in a literary naming context. The documented formation is useful even without forcing a literal tower gloss onto every later bearer.
A modern Spanish dictionary discussion independently records the exact Magdaleno form in a name-based rhyming expression.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Magdaleno in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
MAGDALENOCSV record 10,554 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Magdaleno in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Magdaleno
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Magdalena♀Of Magdala
- Madilyn·Of Magdala, through Madeline
- Magno·Great, in the Latin Magnus name family
- Marcelino♂Diminutive form in the Marcus–Marcellus family
- Mariano♂From the Roman name Marianus, related to Marius
- Mariglen·Documented Albanian Marx–Engels–Lenin formation
- Marlene♀Blend of Maria and Magdalene
- Marleo·Modern formation modeled on Leonard or Marlon
What rhymes with Magdaleno?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Magdaleno further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- ICOS 2011 — literary character naming study (opens in a new tab)
Indexed exact Magdaleno masculine formation and María Magdalena allusion in literary context.
- DiccET — echa el freno, Madaleno (opens in a new tab)
Exact Magdaleno name variant in expression; no bearer naming-intent claim.