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Madalina

#14,262 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Madalina has been given to 125 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #14,262 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Madalina, 2025

1 in 553,000

Madalina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madalina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madalina means

Madalina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Madalina is used in Romanian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Romanian, Madalina is pronounced [ma.daˈli.na].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 125 girls were recorded with the name Madalina between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2017; its best national rank was #7,684 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,453 in 2020 to #14,262 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,911 in 2015 to #14,262 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 Madalina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,262
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madalina 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madalina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madalinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madalina was born before 2017 — so the typical Madalina is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
125
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.6% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Madalina 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
+2,490
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+191
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−351
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 2017 (15)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,684
2017

Spellings of Madalina

Madalina is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 56.1% against Madalina's 0.03%.

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.

Madalina around the world

Where Madalina 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
    2007–2023
    #4,057
    in 2023
  • France
    2003–2025
    #6,640
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Madalina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,262
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 191
Best rank ever
#7,684
2017
Peak year
2017
15 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
125
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Madalina

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

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Sibling names for Madalina

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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