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A male name. Latin magnus ‘great'. The first person to bear this name was Magnus I, King of Norway and Denmark, d. 1047, s. of St Olaf. His father was a great admirer of Charlemagne, ‘Carolus Magnus', and the child is said to have been baptized by servants who thought Magnus was a proper name.