Madaline
Madaline was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,035 among girls’ names; 4,990 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Madaline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madaline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madaline?
#6,035 among girls’ names, 2025
Madaline fell from #3,635 in 2015 to #6,035 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 12.4 per million.
114 babies in 1918, the peak
Madaline peaked in 1918, when 114 girls were given it, #669 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,035 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,530 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,940 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,569 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,180 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,225 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,972 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,629 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,745 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,170 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (134)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,635 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,693 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,106 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,619 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 57 | #3,002 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,396 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,236 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,308 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,558 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,039 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 76 | #2,352 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,355 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,357 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,239 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,912 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 78 | #2,092 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,240 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,036 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,637 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,888 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,536 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,067 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,939 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,161 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,586 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,999 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,009 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,481 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,627 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,127 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,405 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,068 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,270 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,197 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,061 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,304 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,049 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,651 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,607 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,856 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,099 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,010 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,713 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,278 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,715 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,271 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,630 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,515 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,428 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,616 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,575 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,468 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,436 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,492 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,531 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,481 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 49 | #1,006 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 58 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 52 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 54 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 67 | #918 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 76 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 92 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 99 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 95 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 102 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 111 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 91 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 114 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 112 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 82 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 89 | #711 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 62 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 50 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 39 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 37 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1910 | 25 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 35 | #680 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 30 | #720 | 0.09 |
| 1907 | 32 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 34 | #620 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 17 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 18 | #868 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 23 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 21 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 17 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 28 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 13 | #924 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 20 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 17 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 22 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 14 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,037 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 12 | #809 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madaline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madaline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 134 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madaline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madaline, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 52% of the 4,990 Americans ever recorded as Madaline. The median Madaline alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 2,708 people named Madaline (2,705 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 169 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 363 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 154 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 326 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 440 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Madaline born?
The states with the most babies named Madaline are Pennsylvania, New York and California, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 291 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 222 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 147 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| West Virginia | 131 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 116 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 78 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Madaline is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madaline is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Madaline with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 270,214 babies since 1880, Madaline is the third most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 3,915 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Madaline
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Madaline and names like it
- Compare Madaline and MadelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMadaline peaked in 1918.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madaline since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Madaline.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madaline alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.