Madleen

#16,350 in 2025Girls' name

Woman from Magdala, through Magdalene

Madleen has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2025. In 2025 it ranked #16,350 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Madleen, 2025

1 in 663,000

Madleen over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madleen: meaning, origin, and history

Woman from Magdala, through Magdalene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madleen means

Madleen belongs to the name family reached through Madleen → Magdalene → Magdalena. Its meaning is “woman from Magdala”.

Origin, language, and formation

Madleen is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Magdalene and Magdalena.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Madleen between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2025; its best national rank was #16,350 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 Madleen?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #16,350; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Madleen 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madleen was born before 2025 — so the typical Madleen is around 0 today.

Median birth year: 2025; About 0 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Madleen 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (5)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #16,350; 2025

Spellings of Madleen

Madleen is not the most common spelling — Maureen is, with 45.7% against Madleen's <0.01%.

Maureen45.7%144,276
Aileen11.9%37,637
Marlee5.6%17,654
Jayleen4.1%13,048
Arleen4.0%12,611
Darleen2.6%8,332
Kayleen2.5%7,995
Ayleen2.3%7,260

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.

Madleen around the world

Where Madleen 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
1978–2022
#6,788
in 2022

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Madleen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #16,350
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #16,350; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 5 that year
First recorded: 2025
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Madleen

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

Madrene Madelys Madizon Madilene Madilen Souleen Madgel Madlynne Madelane Maddysin Madsen Madiyson Maddon Maddelin Madany Madhura Madalon Madesen Madeliz Madrona Maddlynn Azleen Madylen Madian

Sibling names for Madleen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Shyann Halie Allyssa Sydni Leonor Sydnie

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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