Madalene
#11,528 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Madalene has been given to 1,426 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #11,528 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Madalene, 2025
1 in 414,000
Madalene over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Madalene?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,528
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Madalene sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madalene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Madalenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Madalene was born before 1930 — so the typical Madalene is around 95 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 20.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 472
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (292).
Is Madalene 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
- +3,036
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,923
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,571
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 16.3%
- Peak was 1919 (49)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.2% average annual change
Spellings of Madalene
Madalene is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 41.0% against Madalene's 0.28%.
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 Madalene is used
Across 1910–2025, Madalene was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 356,354 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5West Virginia1 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. Madalene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Madalene around the world
Where Madalene 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 & Wales1997–2008#5,545in 2008
- South Australia1946–1996#712in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Madalene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Madalene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Madalene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.