Entry № 6193 · Provençal origin

Magali Magali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-gah-LEE /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Provençal
Meaning
"Provençal Margaret (Mistral's heroine)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Occitan)

A name that means "provençal margaret (mistral's heroine)".

Magali is the Provençal-Occitan form of Margaret — from Greek margaron (pearl). *Heroine of Frédéric Mistral's epic poem Mirèio (1859), which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904. The song Magali from the poem* — in which the suitor and the maiden trade shape-shifting metaphors — is one of the great love duets of Provençal literature.

Used widely in modern southern France.

Provençal Margaret. The shape-shifting love duet of Mistral's epic.

The name in its native script.

Magali
Transliteration
Magali
Pronunciation
/ mɑː.ɡɑːˈliː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Magali stands.

Magali does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Magalis before her.

Real people
Magali Berdah
French television personality.
born 1979
In fiction
Magali
Featured in Mistral's Mirèio.
1859

Names connected to Magali.

The number behind Magali.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Magali reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.