Madoline

Girls' name

Variant of Madeline

Madoline has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1915, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Madoline, 1944

1 in 538,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madoline: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Madeline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madoline means

Madoline is a variant of Madeline.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Madoline is used in English (Rare).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Madoline between 1912 and 1944. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,529 in 1912.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Madoline?

Madoline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1944, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1944: 1 in 538,000; 5 of 2,689,998 births
Among girls only: 1 in 265,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1944: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 372,914 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Madoline 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 1944 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 372,914 children born in 1944 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madoline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madolines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madoline was born before 1924 — so the typical Madoline is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 54.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Madoline 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: 0%; Peak was 1915 (9)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,529; 1912

Spellings of Madoline

Madoline is not the most common spelling — Caroline is, with 39.4% against Madoline's <0.01%.

Caroline39.4%250,410
Madeline32.6%207,385
Adeline12.7%80,812
Madeleine7.2%45,722
Adaline3.0%18,766
Madaline0.79%4,990
Karoline0.61%3,862
Madelyne0.55%3,502

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.

Madoline around the world

Where Madoline 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
1995–2000
#3,546
in 2000

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

Madoline 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: —
Best rank ever: #2,529; 1912
Peak year: 1915; 9 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1944
All-time count: 61
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Madoline

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

Madyline Madiline Maddeline Madalaine Madgeline Madelline Madgline Madaleine Madline Madysson Madellyn Madine Madaline Madalina Madelaine Madelena Madelein Madeleyn Madelinn Jadeline Madhavi Madylynn Madelinne Maddysen

Sibling names for Madoline

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

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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