Madalyn
Madalyn was given to 273 girls in 2025, #946 among girls’ names; 23,222 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,300 Americans named Madalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madalyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madalyn is “a female given name.”
Rare spelling variant of Madeline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madalyn?
#946 among girls’ names, 2025
Madalyn fell from #568 in 2015 to #946 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.30 to 0.17 per 1,000.
1,144 babies in 2008, the peak
Madalyn peaked in 2008, when 1,144 girls were given it, #292 among girls’ names. The 273 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 273 | #946 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 285 | #932 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 294 | #908 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 261 | #1,005 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 288 | #925 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 333 | #819 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 376 | #750 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 384 | #733 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 451 | #660 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 490 | #613 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 543 | #568 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 595 | #519 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 551 | #540 | 0.31 |
| 2012 | 692 | #451 | 0.39 |
| 2011 | 738 | #421 | 0.42 |
| 2010 | 883 | #362 | 0.50 |
| 2009 | 975 | #338 | 0.53 |
| 2008 | 1,144 | #292 | 0.60 |
| 2007 | 881 | #372 | 0.46 |
| 2006 | 915 | #359 | 0.48 |
| 2005 | 875 | #359 | 0.47 |
| 2004 | 758 | #401 | 0.41 |
| 2003 | 808 | #377 | 0.44 |
| 2002 | 832 | #357 | 0.46 |
| 2001 | 785 | #376 | 0.44 |
| 2000 | 751 | #385 | 0.41 |
| 1999 | 615 | #439 | 0.35 |
| 1998 | 682 | #402 | 0.39 |
| 1997 | 562 | #453 | 0.32 |
| 1996 | 444 | #532 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 399 | #575 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 301 | #698 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 241 | #822 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 215 | #910 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 180 | #1,023 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 152 | #1,135 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 147 | #1,126 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,264 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 103 | #1,331 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,149 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,029 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,112 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,303 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,732 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,083 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,811 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,843 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,709 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,350 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,883 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,116 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,735 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,337 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,756 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,768 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,216 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,794 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,056 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,637 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,184 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,224 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,098 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,505 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,517 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 54 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 70 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 57 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,435 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,453 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,562 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,405 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 42 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,231 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 57 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 77 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 68 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 91 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 87 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 81 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 48 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 49 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 77 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 56 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 60 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 64 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 42 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 39 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 37 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 20 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 17 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 14 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,959 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 127 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madalyn, and how old are they?
21,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 23,222 Americans ever recorded as Madalyn. The median Madalyn alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 17,973 people named Madalyn (17,948 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,876 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 176 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 523 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 286 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,090 |
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 Madalyn born?
The states with the most babies named Madalyn are Texas, California and Indiana, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #975 | 0.8× |
| California | 28 | #992 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 15 | #463 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #711 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,154 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 11 | #852 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #877 | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 11 | #397 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 11 | #690 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #738 | 1.1× |
Where Madalyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madalyn is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 Madalyn 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 208,229 babies since 1880, Madalyn is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 273 of their 5,426 babies (5.0%), 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 Madalyn
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 Madalyn and names like it
- Compare Madalyn and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadalyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Madalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.