Maddalena

#4,507 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Magdalene

Maddalena has been given to 881 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #4,507 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Maddalena, 2025

1 in 107,000

Maddalena over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maddalena: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Magdalene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maddalena means

Maddalena is a form of Magdalene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maddalena → Magdalene. The family’s meaning is “woman from Magdala”, recorded in English with the source elements Magdalēnḗ.

Origin, language, and formation

Maddalena is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Magdalene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Maddalena is pronounced /mad.daˈle.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 881 girls were recorded with the name Maddalena between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,475 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,836 in 2020 to #4,507 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,197 in 2015 to #4,507 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.

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How common is Maddalena?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 107,000; 31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 51,800; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #4,507; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 74,127 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maddalena 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maddalena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maddalenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maddalena was born before 2008 — so the typical Maddalena is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 63.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 848; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (252).

Is Maddalena 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: +1,798; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +329; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −310; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.89×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 88.6%; Peak was 2015 (35)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,475; 1966

Spellings of Maddalena

Maddalena is not the most common spelling — Magdalena is, with 52.9% against Maddalena's 2.4%.

Magdalena52.9%19,773
Magdalene26.7%9,994
Magdalen8.7%3,267
Madalene3.8%1,426
Maddalena2.4%881
Madalena2.2%827
Adalena1.7%621
Maddalyn1.6%614

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 Maddalena is used

Across 1910–2025, Maddalena was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 282,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 100,000
2California1 in —
3Florida1 in —
4Pennsylvania1 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. Maddalena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maddalena around the world

Where Maddalena 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
1996–2025
#4,867
in 2025
France
1925–2025
#2,141
in 2025
Canada
1991–2024
#2,710
in 2024
South Australia
1947–2000
#727
in 2000

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.

Maddalena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #4,507
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 329
Best rank ever: #3,475; 1966
Peak year: 2015; 35 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 881
Count in 2025: 31

Names similar to Maddalena

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

Sibling names for Maddalena

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

For a sister

Kendyl Anabel Karleigh Adelle Annabell Hayleigh Leigha Shaniya

For a brother

Caesar Hamilton Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn Brennen Jamarcus

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