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Madonna

#14,269 in 2025Girls' name

My + lady

Madonna has been given to 9,560 babies in the U.S. since 1897. In 2025 it ranked #14,269 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 211 recorded.

Babies named Madonna, 2025

1 in 553,000

Madonna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madonna: meaning, origin, and history

My + lady

Italian

What Madonna means

Madonna means “my + lady”, associated with ma and donna.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Italian madonna, from Old Italian ma (“my”) + donna (“lady”). The given name is derived from the English term, not used as a given name in Italy. Doublet of madam.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Madonna (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Madonna is used in English. Its origins include Italian.

Madonna comes through Italian madonna and Italian ma.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Madonna is pronounced /məˈdɒnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,560 girls were recorded with the name Madonna between 1897 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 211 in 1954; its best national rank was #534 in 1933.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,597 in 2020 to #14,269 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,747 in 2015 to #14,269 in 2025.

How common is Madonna?

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
#14,269
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madonna 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 Madonna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madonnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madonna was born before 1950 — so the typical Madonna is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,899
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1950s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (1,867).

Is Madonna 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
−3,500
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,328
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,522
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.8%
Peak was 1954 (211)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#534
1933

Spellings of Madonna

Madonna is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 91.1% against Madonna's 1.0%.

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 Madonna is used

Across 1910–2025, Madonna was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 2,778 girls, against 1 in 20,750 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

036 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 2,778
  2. 2Indiana1 in 3,571
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 4,545
  4. 4Illinois1 in 9,091
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 9,091
  6. 6Ohio1 in 10,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 11,111
  8. 8Missouri1 in 11,111

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. Madonna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madonna around the world

Where Madonna 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
    2001–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1967–1986
    #521
    in 1986
  • France
    1987–2006
    #5,642
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1955–1990
    #691
    in 1990

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

Madonna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,269
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,328
Best rank ever
#534
1933
Peak year
1954
211 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,560
Count in 2025
6

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

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Names with a curve like Madonna

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

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Sibling names for Madonna

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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