Madolyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Madolyn has been given to 1,743 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1921, with 45 recorded.
Babies named Madolyn, 2023
1 in 552,000
Madolyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Madolyn?
Madolyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 267,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Madolyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madolyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Madolyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Madolyn was born before 1948 — so the typical Madolyn is around 77 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 17.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 853
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 17.2% of all recorded uses (300).
Is Madolyn 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (45)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.2% average annual change
Spellings of Madolyn
Madolyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 44.4% against Madolyn's 0.14%.
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 Madolyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Madolyn was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 520,717 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maine1 in 100,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 3West Virginia1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Michigan1 in —
- 7New York1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 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. Madolyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Madolyn around the world
Where Madolyn 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.
- France1991–1991#3,075in 1991
- South Australia1989–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Madolyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Madolyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Madolyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.