Madeleine — #437 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Madeleine

The Social Security Administration has registered 45,039 babies named Madeleine between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Madeleine currently holds the #437 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 1,424 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Madeleine performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10,625 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Madeleine shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,889 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Madeleine in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Madeleine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 45,039 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.