Maddelyn
Maddelyn was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,462 among girls’ names; 751 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maddelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maddelyn?
#6,462 among girls’ names, 2025
Maddelyn fell from #3,955 in 2015 to #6,462 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 11.2 per million.
43 babies in 2017, the peak
Maddelyn peaked in 2017, when 43 girls were given it, #3,598 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,462 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,069 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,826 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,878 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,307 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,324 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,503 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,516 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,598 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,686 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,955 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,888 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,086 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,885 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,203 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,459 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,323 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,414 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,013 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,736 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,430 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,316 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,523 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,562 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,523 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,673 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,070 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,964 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,760 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,252 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,802 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maddelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maddelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maddelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maddelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 745 Americans named Maddelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 609 people named Maddelyn (605 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 631 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 Maddelyn?
Maddelyn is a less common spelling of Madelyn: SSA has recorded 751 Maddelyn and 116,060 Madelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 189,997 babies since 1880, Maddelyn is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 4,968 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 Maddelyn
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 Maddelyn and names like it
- Compare Maddelyn and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaddelyn peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maddelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Maddelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maddelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.