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Madelyne

#2,270 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Madelyne has been given to 3,502 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #2,270 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Madelyne, 2025

1 in 40,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madelyne: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madelyne means

Madelyne is a given name.

The naming story behind Madelyne

Wikidata records Madelyne as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q130540292, 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, 3,502 girls were recorded with the name Madelyne between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,427 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,052 in 2020 to #2,270 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,873 in 2015 to #2,270 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 Madelyne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,900
81 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,270
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,370 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madelyne 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 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madelyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madelynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madelyne was born before 2002 — so the typical Madelyne is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,017
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (1,112).

Is Madelyne 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
−436
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,782
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+603
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.8%
Peak was 2000 (129)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,427
2000

Spellings of Madelyne

Madelyne is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 33.4% against Madelyne's 0.56%.

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 Madelyne is used

Across 1910–2025, Madelyne was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 99,982 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 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. Madelyne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madelyne around the world

Where Madelyne 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
    1997–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    1955–2025
    #2,813
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Madelyne in other languages

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

MadelynMadeleneMadeleyne

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

Madelyne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,270
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,782
Best rank ever
#1,427
2000
Peak year
2000
129 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,502
Count in 2025
81

Names similar to Madelyne

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

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Names with a curve like Madelyne

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

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Sibling names for Madelyne

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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