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Madalena

#6,721 in 2025Girls' name

Tower

Madalena has been given to 827 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #6,721 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Madalena, 2025

1 in 195,000

Madalena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madalena: meaning, origin, and history

Tower

Hebrew

What Madalena means

Madalena means “tower”, associated with migdál.

Origin, language, and formation

Madalena is used in Portuguese. Its origins include Hebrew.

Madalena comes through Old Galician-Portuguese Madalena and Hebrew מגדל.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Madalena is pronounced /ma.daˈlẽ.nɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 827 girls were recorded with the name Madalena between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2010; its best national rank was #2,706 in 1911.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,232 in 2020 to #6,721 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,949 in 2015 to #6,721 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Madalena?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,721
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madalena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madalena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madalenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madalena was born before 2003 — so the typical Madalena is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
730
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (194).

Is Madalena rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+727
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,511
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−772
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.7%
Peak was 2010 (28)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,706
1911

Spellings of Madalena

Madalena is not the most common spelling — Madalyn is, with 23.4% against Madalena's 0.83%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Madalena is used

Across 1910–2025, Madalena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,154,737 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Madalena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madalena around the world

Where Madalena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1924–2025
    #2,566
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1958–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Madalena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,721
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,511
Best rank ever
#2,706
1911
Peak year
2010
28 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
827
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Madalena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Madalena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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