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Madilynn

#860 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Madeline

Madilynn has been given to 11,432 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #860 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 656 recorded.

Babies named Madilynn, 2025

1 in 10,500

Madilynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madilynn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Madeline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madilynn means

Madilynn is a variant of Madeline.

Origin, language, and formation

Madilynn is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,432 girls were recorded with the name Madilynn between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 656 in 2014; its best national rank was #479 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #506 in 2020 to #860 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #499 in 2015 to #860 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Madilynn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,500
315 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,100
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#860
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,296 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madilynn 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,296 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madilynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madilynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madilynn was born before 2014 — so the typical Madilynn is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,432
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (5,733).

Is Madilynn 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
−76
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−354
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−361
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.49×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.0%
Peak was 2014 (656)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#479
2014

Spellings of Madilynn

Madilynn is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 53.2% against Madilynn's 1.6%.

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 Madilynn is used

Across 2016–2025, Madilynn was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 625 girls, against 1 in 2,822 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

2160 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 625
  2. 2Wyoming1 in 847
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 1,111
  4. 4Alabama1 in 1,449
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 1,449
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 1,471
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 1,515
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 1,538

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.

Geographically, Madilynn is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 75% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Madilynn around the world

Where Madilynn 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.

  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Madilynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#860
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 354
Best rank ever
#479
2014
Peak year
2014
656 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,432
Count in 2025
315

Names similar to Madilynn

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

MadalynnMadelynnMadisynnMaddilynnMaddisonMadalineMadysonMadonnaMadlynnMadisynMadelyneMarilynnBraelynnMadissonMadalynMadilynMadisenKaitlynnJocelynnCarolynnMaddalynnMadelaineMadelinOaklynn

Names with a curve like Madilynn

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

AleenaAverieCharleyJaliyahSienaMaliyahZariahMalayaMckinleyAmelieJayleenLilianna

Sibling names for Madilynn

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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