Comments for MAGDALENA:

The name Magdalena is very widely used in Macedonia. Writing is as it is written, i.e. Magdalena, as well as reading.

-- Anonymous User  11/12/2005

I think that Anna Magdalena was Johann Sebastian Bach's second wife or something. I'm not sure if she was his wife or not.

-- eponine_pontmercy  1/30/2006

Magdelena is the Swedish international football player Henrik Larsson's wifes' name.

-- Anonymous User  3/27/2006

Magdalena Maleeva is the best Bulgarian tennis player. She has 60 weeks in top 10 of the world and in January 1996 she became the 4th best in the world.

-- iva_toneva  5/8/2006

This isn't a Portuguese name. [noted -ed]

-- Aki  7/7/2006

This is the name of a beautiful song by the band A Perfect Circle. It has beautiful lyrics, but it is about a stripper I think. Here are some lyrics:
I bear witness
To this place, this prayer, so long forgotten
So pure
So rare
To witness such an earthly goddess.

-- misslilith  7/13/2006

This is definitely in my top ten favorite female names. I'm not totally sure why--it just seems sort of exotic (the good kind); when I hear this name I think of a very beautiful woman.

-- Lancelot  7/31/2006

Marlene Dietrich used her first and middle names of Mary Magdalena to create her stage name. One of Martin Luther's daughters was named Magdalena. The name Lena is very popular in Germany and is taken from this name.

-- susi  7/31/2006

Maria Magdalena Filipsson is the Swedish singer Lena Philipsson's real name.

-- Anonymous User  8/17/2006

The wonderful Dig's samba song "Magdalena Mi Amor"! It is a variant of the Celia Cruz's salsa song "Quimbara".

-- iva_toneva  8/21/2006

Pronounced mug-dah-LAY-nah in Germany. [noted -ed]

-- JHK  9/3/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Magdalena here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

-- _satu_  9/3/2006

Magdalena is my name pronounced Mag-de-lay-nah. I used to hate it as a child as it was so long and I used to just go by Lena. As I got to my teens I learned to appreciate it more and now I am older I love it. I think that it is feminine and pretty and kind of flows off your tongue. I still go by my childhood nickname of Lena, but I always introduce myself as Magdalena and don't insist on people using my nickname.

-- vintage  12/19/2006

Magdalena´s nicknames are Magda, Madalena, Madlen, Lena, Madla, Mayda.

-- Karcoolka  5/13/2007

Also a feminine name in Slovenia.

-- earthnut  7/20/2007

Magdalena is my name and I love it! It's a very popular name in Poland and well known in most European countries, I think. Also in Latin America.

In Poland we've got lot of beautiful actresses called Magalena, e.g. Magadelna Cielecka, Magdalena Walach, Magdalena Mielcarz etc.

It is also some American comic book heroine. Neil Gaiman's daughter is Madeleine. :-)

-- MalenaSlav  2/10/2008

The Magdalena River is the major river of Colombia, flowing north from the Andes to the Caribbean Sea.

-- AndrewJKD  4/13/2008

A nice pretty name. It is my middle name, and I am named after Mary Magdalene. My name is Marija Magdalena as I am part Lithuanian, so my name is more European than Mary Magdalene. I often wish it was my first name, because it can be shortened a lot, which Marija can not be. Friends often comment on how nice my middle name is.

-- BitterMarija  6/8/2008

Czech diminutive of Magdalena is Majdalen(k)a.

-- Emilie007  12/24/2008

This is the middle name of Sophie Scholl, a prominent member of the White Rose which was a resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was executed for high treason.

-- Zan11  3/23/2009

This name has really started to grow on me, although I don't think I would ever actually use this name. It has quite a variety of nicknames as well, such as Maggie, Maddie, Addie, Aggie, Alena, Lena, Lenny, etc.

-- Anonymous User  3/29/2009

This is also the Croatian form.

-- goricar  11/14/2009

Comments for MAGDALÉNA:

This is the form of the name that is used in Hungary. [noted -ed]

-- Narinoc  5/20/2006

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