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Madelon

Girls' name

Diminutive of Madeleine

Madelon has been given to 1,787 babies in the U.S. since 1897. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Madelon, 2017

1 in 596,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madelon: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Madeleine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madelon means

Madelon is a diminutive of Madeleine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Madelon is used in French (Rare) and Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /maː.də.ˈlɔn/ for Madelon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeleine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,787 girls were recorded with the name Madelon between 1897 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,025 in 1920.

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 Madelon?

Madelon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madelon 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madelon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madelons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madelon was born before 1936 — so the typical Madelon is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
477
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (353).

Is Madelon 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (53)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,025
1920

Spellings of Madelon

Madelon is not the most common spelling — Madison is, with 48.3% against Madelon's 0.21%.

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 Madelon is used

Across 1910–2025, Madelon was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 219,843 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Iowa1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8West Virginia1 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. Madelon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madelon around the world

Where Madelon 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.

  • France
    1920–2010
    #5,259
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2007–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Madelon by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,025
1920
Peak year
1920
53 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
1,787
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Madelon

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

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Sibling names for Madelon

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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