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Magenta name meaning

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in 2010
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Meaning and Origin

What does the name Magenta mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.

Origin and Meaning of Magenta

User Submitted Origins

Italian
90%
Spanish
10%

User Submitted Meanings

  1. According to a user from Pennsylvania, U.S., the name Magenta is of Italian origin and means "It's a town in Italy. When the battle of Magenta took place that's also how the color came about".
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun ma*gen"ta
An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin fuchsine roseïne, etc.
Senses
  1. The purplish-red color of magenta.
Other Dictionary Sources
  1. A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
  2. A primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
  3. Of deep purplish red
Wiktionary

Named in 1859 by Edward Chambers Nicholson after the Battle of Magenta, fought earlier that year in Magenta, Lombardy. The town's name is from Latin castrum Maxentiae, "castle of Maxentius."

  1. A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.

magenta was also found in the following language(s): Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish

Notable Persons Named Magenta

Notable Persons Named Magenta

Magenta Devine

Magenta Devine is a television presenter. Magenta was given the name Kim Taylor on November 4th, 1957.

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Magenta

Magenta was born in 1927. He died in 1967.

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Notable Persons With the Last Name Magenta

Notable Persons With the Last Name Magenta

Magenta

Magenta was born in 1927. He died in 1967.

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Giovanni Magenta

Giovanni was born in 1565. He died in 1635.

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Fun Facts about the name Magenta

  • How Popular is the name Magenta? Magenta is the 26,740th most popular name of all time.
  • How many people with the first name Magenta have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2019, the Social Security Administration has recorded 215 babies born with the first name Magenta in the United States. That's more than enough people named Magenta to occupy the territory of Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) with an estimated population of 66 (as of July 1, 2008).
  • What year were 5 or more babies first named Magenta? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1980 when it was given as a first name to 5 new born babies.
  • When was Magenta first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Magenta is Friday, September 14th, 1883.
  • What year had the most people named Magenta born? The highest recorded use of the first name Magenta was in 1998 with a total of 12 babies.
  • Weird things about the name Magenta: The name spelled backwards is Atnegam. A random rearrangement of the letters in the name (anagram) will give Nataegm. How do you pronounce that?
  • Magenta name meaning

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