Madora

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Madora has been given to 356 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1922, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Madora, 1991

1 in 779,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madora: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madora means

Madora is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Madora is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 356 girls were recorded with the name Madora between 1880 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1922; its best national rank was #898 in 1880.

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.

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How common is Madora?

Madora had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991: 1 in 779,000; 5 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only: 1 in 375,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 539,676 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Madora 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 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madora was born before 1925 — so the typical Madora is around 100 today.

Median birth year: 1925; About 100 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 4.2%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 42; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Madora 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 1922 (16)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #898; 1880

Spellings of Madora

Madora is not the most common spelling — Dora is, with 37.7% against Madora's 0.13%.

Dora37.7%105,930
Mayra11.8%33,217
Mara8.5%24,038
Maura7.1%19,965
Yadira4.6%12,815
Alora4.2%11,893
Madonna3.4%9,560
Amora3.3%9,416

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.

Madora 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: #898; 1880
Peak year: 1922; 16 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 1991
All-time count: 356
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Madora

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

Maddix Madiha Maddux Maddyx Madyn Madinah Maddyn Maddi Jinora Melora Sanora Adaora Eleora Madlynn Valora Sefora Madina Madden Velora Madilyne Madine Madelina Allora Maddox

Sibling names for Madora

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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