Cumulative distribution of the nine magnetar peculiar transverse velocities, including SGR 0501+4516, measured so far. These measurements are for XTE J1810-197 (VLBI; Helfand et al. 2007), 1E 1547.0-5408 (VLBI; Deller et al. 2012), SGRs 1806-20 and 1900+15 (NIR; Tendulkar et al. 2012), AXPs 1E 2259+586 and 4U0142+61 (NIR; Tendulkar et al. 2013), SGR 1935+2154 (NIR; Lyman et al. 2022), Swift J1818.0-1607 (Ding et al. 2024, VLBI), and SGR 0501+4516 (this work). Multiple draws from each magnetar’s velocity probability distribution are made, assuming Gaussian uncertainties on the velocities. The same process is applied to the pulsar distribution in grey (data from Verbunt et al. 2017). SGR 0501+4516, whose velocity range for distances between 1 and 3 kpc is indicated by the shaded band, is the joint-slowest magnetar yet discovered, at least in projection, and is among the slowest ∼10% of pulsars with similar measurements.