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Madelena

#14,263 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Madelena has been given to 196 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #14,263 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Madelena, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madelena: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madelena means

Madelena is a given name.

The naming story behind Madelena

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Madelena in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 32.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Span. Heb. of Magdala”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Madelena, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 196 girls were recorded with the name Madelena between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2008; its best national rank was #7,963 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,718 in 2020 to #14,263 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,101 in 2015 to #14,263 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 Madelena?

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
#14,263
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madelena 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 Madelena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madelenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madelena was born before 2005 — so the typical Madelena is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
196
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2000s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Madelena 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,545
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,838
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.5%
Peak was 2008 (16)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,963
2008

Spellings of Madelena

Madelena is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 44.8% against Madelena's 0.04%.

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 Madelena is used

Across 1910–2025, Madelena was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Madelena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madelena around the world

Where Madelena 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
    2003–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • France
    1971–1971
    #2,313
    in 1971
  • South Australia
    1961–1990
    #691
    in 1990

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

Madelena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,263
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,545
Best rank ever
#7,963
2008
Peak year
2008
16 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
196
Count in 2025
6

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

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Sibling names for Madelena

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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