Madelaine
Madelaine was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,336 among girls’ names; 3,398 Americans have been recorded with it since 1901 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,870 Americans named Madelaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madelaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madelaine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madelaine is “a female given name.”
Variant of Madeleine.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madelaine?
#5,336 among girls’ names, 2025
Madelaine rose from #5,950 in 2015 to #5,336 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 14.9 per million.
119 babies in 1998, the peak
Madelaine peaked in 1998, when 119 girls were given it, #1,438 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,336 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,234 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,326 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,262 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,203 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,505 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,727 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,926 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,952 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,726 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,950 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,719 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,214 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,762 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,207 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,887 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,842 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,570 | 38.6 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,668 | 35.9 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,159 | 27.9 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,806 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,412 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,134 | 44.9 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,944 | 50.6 |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,812 | 54.4 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,783 | 54.0 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,838 | 49.0 |
| 1998 | 119 | #1,438 | 67.3 |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,508 | 62.0 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,458 | 64.5 |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,468 | 62.0 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,460 | 61.0 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,820 | 44.2 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,995 | 37.4 |
| 1991 | 81 | #1,765 | 43.2 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,057 | 34.2 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,499 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,723 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,480 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,505 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,989 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,103 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,663 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,093 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,128 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,420 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,719 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,168 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,274 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,367 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,747 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,198 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,003 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,235 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,593 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,645 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,890 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,656 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,486 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,104 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,470 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,431 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,164 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,150 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,011 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,363 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,317 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,835 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,129 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,440 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,412 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,036 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,376 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,944 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,030 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,463 | 23.4 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,634 | 19.4 |
| 1947 | 52 | #1,260 | 29.3 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,897 | 15.3 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,966 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,644 | 19.6 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,481 | 22.9 |
| 1942 | 57 | #1,043 | 42.2 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,611 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,114 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,641 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,852 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,663 | 6.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,666 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,613 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,687 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,228 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,850 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,058 | 15.6 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,307 | 13.4 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,419 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,982 | 16.4 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,616 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 20 | #2,000 | 16.6 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,073 | 15.8 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,723 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,226 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,454 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,287 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,385 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,590 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,330 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,365 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,458 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,836 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,363 | 14.3 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,256 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,657 | 23.7 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,194 | 37.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madelaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madelaine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madelaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madelaine, and how old are they?
2,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 3,398 Americans ever recorded as Madelaine. The median Madelaine alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 3,204 people named Madelaine (3,200 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 93 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 276 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 807 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 350 |
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 Madelaine born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,209 | 0.8× |
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 Madelaine 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 270,363 babies since 1880, Madelaine is the fifth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 3,913 babies (<1%), the fourth 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.
More about Madelaine and names like it
- Compare Madelaine and MadelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMadelaine peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madelaine since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Madelaine.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madelaine alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.