Madaleine — girls' name

What the Data Says About Madaleine

The Social Security Administration has registered 206 babies named Madaleine between 1915 and 2017, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Madaleine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 17 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Madaleine performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Madaleine shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Madaleine in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Madaleine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 206 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.