Madalyne
Madalyne was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,577 among girls’ names; 716 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madalyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madalyne?
#10,577 among girls’ names, 2025
Madalyne fell from #9,894 in 2015 to #10,577 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.6 per million.
46 babies in 2008, the peak
Madalyne peaked in 2008, when 46 girls were given it, #3,562 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,577 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,742 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,666 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,630 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,019 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,993 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,183 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,286 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,586 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,204 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,894 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,908 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,623 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,248 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,471 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,688 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,776 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,562 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,630 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,029 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,369 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,657 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,033 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,338 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,516 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,484 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,680 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,572 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,076 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,979 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,467 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,274 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,822 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,034 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,283 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,658 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,312 | 3.5 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,627 | 4.8 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,324 | 4.2 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,537 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,891 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,597 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,819 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,083 | 6.2 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,313 | 8.1 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,249 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madalyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madalyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madalyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madalyne, and how old are they?
An estimated 646 Americans named Madalyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 572 people named Madalyne (571 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Madalyne?
Madalyne is a less common spelling of Madaline: SSA has recorded 716 Madalyne and 4,990 Madaline since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 223,600 babies since 1880, Madalyne is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 3,244 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Madalyne
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 Madalyne and names like it
- Compare Madalyne and MadalineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madalyne since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Madalyne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madalyne alive today were born 1997-2012.
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