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Madlyn

#14,267 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Madeline

Madlyn has been given to 2,377 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #14,267 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Madlyn, 2025

1 in 553,000

Madlyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madlyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Madeline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madlyn means

Madlyn is a variant of Madeline.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Madlyn is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmæd.lɪn/ for Madlyn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,377 girls were recorded with the name Madlyn between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1922; its best national rank was #843 in 1922.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,746 in 2015 to #14,267 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 Madlyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,267
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madlyn 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madlyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madlyn was born before 1940 — so the typical Madlyn is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
953
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (480).

Is Madlyn 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
−3,499
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,521
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.9%
Peak was 1922 (76)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#843
1922

Spellings of Madlyn

Madlyn is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 38.2% against Madlyn's 0.24%.

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 Madlyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Madlyn was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 191,275 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Madlyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madlyn around the world

Where Madlyn 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
    2003–2003
    #4,373
    in 2003
  • France
    1988–2016
    #5,167
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

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

Notable people named Madlyn

People whose public names include Madlyn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Madlyn in other languages

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

MadalynMadelyn

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

Madlyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,267
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#843
1922
Peak year
1922
76 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,377
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Madlyn

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

MaddilynMadolynMaddelynMadalynMadilynMaddoxMaddalynMaddenMadinaMaddynMadysenMadelynMaddieMadelinMadellynKarlynAdilynCaelynMaelynTaelynMadylynHollynDarlynEmelyn

Names with a curve like Madlyn

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

AileneIleenMadeleneMichelinaLaveraMargareteFelipaZitaEvelineColettaLaurineGregoria

Sibling names for Madlyn

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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