Madalynn
Madalynn was given to 161 girls in 2025, #1,370 among girls’ names; 9,338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,240 Americans named Madalynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madalynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madalynn is “a female given name.”
Variant of Madeleine, influenced by Lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madalynn?
#1,370 among girls’ names, 2025
Madalynn fell from #679 in 2015 to #1,370 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.24 to 0.10 per 1,000.
557 babies in 2009, the peak
Madalynn peaked in 2009, when 557 girls were given it, #544 among girls’ names. The 161 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 161 | #1,370 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 204 | #1,179 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 193 | #1,225 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 195 | #1,234 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 209 | #1,174 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 258 | #989 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 283 | #933 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 297 | #907 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 331 | #823 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 356 | #800 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 420 | #679 | 0.24 |
| 2014 | 438 | #652 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 450 | #621 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 446 | #640 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 481 | #596 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 508 | #578 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 557 | #544 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 527 | #592 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 443 | #667 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 342 | #801 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 318 | #815 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 301 | #827 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 276 | #875 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 249 | #900 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 220 | #978 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 194 | #1,069 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,325 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 137 | #1,301 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,632 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 70 | #2,006 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,567 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,401 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,132 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,323 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,141 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,429 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,376 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,434 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,475 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,549 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,281 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madalynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madalynn, and how old are they?
9,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,338 Americans ever recorded as Madalynn. The median Madalynn alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 6,707 people named Madalynn (6,691 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 273 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,770 |
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 Madalynn born?
The states with the most babies named Madalynn are Texas, Ohio and Kentucky, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #911 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 11 | #853 | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 9 | #480 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,039 | 0.7× |
| California | 7 | #2,668 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 7 | #883 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,804 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,329 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,073 | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #742 | 0.7× |
Where Madalynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madalynn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1921 it was given 1.9 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 Madalynn 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 206,741 babies since 1880, Madalynn is the sixth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 161 of their 5,352 babies (3.0%), again the sixth most given.
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 Madalynn
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 Madalynn and names like it
- Compare Madalynn and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadalynn peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madalynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Madalynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madalynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.