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Madelaine

#5,336 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Madeline

Madelaine has been given to 3,398 babies in the U.S. since 1901. In 2025 it ranked #5,336 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Madelaine, 2025

1 in 138,000

Madelaine over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madelaine: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Madeline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madelaine means

Madelaine is a variant of Madeline.

Origin, language, and formation

Madelaine is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeline and Madeleine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,398 girls were recorded with the name Madelaine between 1901 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,043 in 1942.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,505 in 2020 to #5,336 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,950 in 2015 to #5,336 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 Madelaine?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,336
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madelaine 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madelaine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madelaines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madelaine was born before 1995 — so the typical Madelaine is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,766
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1990s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (940).

Is Madelaine 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
−102
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−831
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+614
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.2%
Peak was 1998 (119)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,043
1942

Spellings of Madelaine

Madelaine is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 52.5% against Madelaine's 0.86%.

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 Madelaine is used

Across 1910–2025, Madelaine was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 121,270 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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. Madelaine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madelaine around the world

Where Madelaine 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1991–2006
    #606
    in 2006
  • Ireland
    1964–1964
    #372
    in 1964
  • France
    1900–1943
    #1,163
    in 1943
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #1,916
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1962–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Madelaine

People whose public names include Madelaine, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Madelaine in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Madelaine. Linked forms have their own page here.

MagdaMalenaMadelonMarleneMadelineMaddalenaMadeleineMaddýMarlèneMagdelaineMagdeleine

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Madelaine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,336
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 831
Best rank ever
#1,043
1942
Peak year
1998
119 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,398
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Madelaine

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

MadalineMadeleineMaddelineMadaleineMadellineMadelynneMadelyneMadissonMadelineMadgelineMaddalenaMadalaineAugustineMaddilynnMadelinMadalynneMadlineMadaleneValentineMaddilynMadysenMadalynnMaddisynMadilynne

Names with a curve like Madelaine

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

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Sibling names for Madelaine

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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