Madeleyn
#6,722 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Madeleyn has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #6,722 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Madeleyn, 2025
1 in 195,000
Madeleyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Madeleyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 94,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,722
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Madeleyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madeleyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Madeleyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Madeleyn was born before 2017 — so the typical Madeleyn is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 61.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 212
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 61.3% of all recorded uses (130).
Is Madeleyn 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
- +728
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +7,733
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,664
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 63.0%
- Peak was 2015 (27)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.9% average annual change
Spellings of Madeleyn
Madeleyn is not the most common spelling — Madelyn is, with 42.5% against Madeleyn's 0.08%.
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 Madeleyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Madeleyn was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 175,442 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Madeleyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Madeleyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Madeleyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Madeleyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.