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Madaline

#6,035 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Madaline has been given to 4,990 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #6,035 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Madaline, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madaline: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madaline means

Madaline is a given name.

The naming story behind Madaline

Wikidata records Madaline as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q107407587, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,990 girls were recorded with the name Madaline between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 114 in 1918; its best national rank was #620 in 1906.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,225 in 2020 to #6,035 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,635 in 2015 to #6,035 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.

How common is Madaline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,035
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madaline 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madaline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madalines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madaline was born before 1947 — so the typical Madaline is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,415
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (794).

Is Madaline 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
−1,505
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+190
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,400
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.5%
Peak was 1918 (114)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#620
1906

Spellings of Madaline

Madaline is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 47.9% against Madaline's 1.2%.

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 Madaline is used

Across 1910–2025, Madaline was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 92,916 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 11,111
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 100,000

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. Madaline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madaline around the world

Where Madaline 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2001–2010
    #2,315
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1981–2007
    #535
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Madaline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,035
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 190
Best rank ever
#620
1906
Peak year
1918
114 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,990
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Madaline

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

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Names with a curve like Madaline

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Madaline, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Madaline

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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