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Madalynn

#1,370 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Madeleine

Madalynn has been given to 9,338 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #1,370 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 557 recorded.

Babies named Madalynn, 2025

1 in 20,600

Madalynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madalynn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Madeleine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madalynn means

Madalynn is a variant of Madeleine.

Origin, language, and formation

Madalynn is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeleine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,338 girls were recorded with the name Madalynn between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 557 in 2009; its best national rank was #544 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #989 in 2020 to #1,370 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #679 in 2015 to #1,370 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 Madalynn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,600
161 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,980
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,370
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,274 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madalynn 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,274 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madalynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madalynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madalynn was born before 2011 — so the typical Madalynn is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,312
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (4,010).

Is Madalynn 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
−191
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−381
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−691
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.9%
Peak was 2009 (557)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#544
2009

Spellings of Madalynn

Madalynn is not the most common spelling — Madelyn is, with 33.9% against Madalynn's 2.7%.

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 Madalynn is used

Across 2016–2025, Madalynn was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 1,250 girls, against 1 in 6,025 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

280 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 1,250
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 1,613
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 2,857
  4. 4Indiana1 in 2,941
  5. 5Alabama1 in 3,030
  6. 6Ohio1 in 3,125
  7. 7Michigan1 in 3,846
  8. 8Missouri1 in 4,000

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.

Madalynn around the world

Where Madalynn 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
    2006–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1998–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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.

Madalynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,370
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 381
Best rank ever
#544
2009
Peak year
2009
557 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,338
Count in 2025
161

Names similar to Madalynn

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

MadilynnMadelynnMadisynnMaddilynnMadalineMadonnaMaddisonMadlynnMadelyneMadysonMadissonBraelynnMadisenMadisynJocelynnMarilynnCarolynnMadalynMadilynMaddalynnMadelaineMadelinKaitlynnMadalene

Names with a curve like Madalynn

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

MiahJaelynnAmiyaMaleahMyahJayleeTaliyahAiyanaSariahAryannaJayleneJaylynn

Sibling names for Madalynn

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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