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Madelin

#2,426 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Madelin has been given to 3,231 babies in the U.S. since 1899. In 2025 it ranked #2,426 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 115 recorded.

Babies named Madelin, 2025

1 in 44,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madelin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madelin means

Madelin is a given name.

The naming story behind Madelin

Wikidata records Madelin as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q117474781, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,231 girls were recorded with the name Madelin between 1899 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 115 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,551 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,318 in 2020 to #2,426 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,328 in 2015 to #2,426 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 Madelin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,800
74 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,426
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,054 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madelin 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,054 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madelin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madelins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madelin was born before 2003 — so the typical Madelin is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,998
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (1,009).

Is Madelin 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
+173
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+892
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+902
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.51×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.3%
Peak was 2000 (115)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,551
2000

Spellings of Madelin

Madelin is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 33.2% against Madelin's 0.52%.

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 Madelin is used

Across 2016–2025, Madelin was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 31,109 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 20,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6New York1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 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.

Madelin around the world

Where Madelin 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
    1999–2010
    #4,688
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1997–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1987–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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.

Madelin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,426
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 892
Best rank ever
#1,551
2000
Peak year
2000
115 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,231
Count in 2025
74

Names similar to Madelin

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

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Names with a curve like Madelin

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

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Sibling names for Madelin

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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