Madelin
Madelin was given to 74 girls in 2025, #2,426 among girls’ names; 3,231 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,960 Americans named Madelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madelin?
#2,426 among girls’ names, 2025
Madelin rose from #3,328 in 2015 to #2,426 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 27.4 to 46.0 per million.
115 babies in 2000, the peak
Madelin peaked in 2000, when 115 girls were given it, #1,551 among girls’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,426 | 46.0 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,599 | 42.0 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,408 | 46.7 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,060 | 32.9 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,282 | 29.9 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,318 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,485 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,142 | 30.6 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,672 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,309 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,328 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,994 | 31.9 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,994 | 31.9 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,924 | 33.5 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,448 | 42.6 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,109 | 52.9 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,872 | 61.5 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,985 | 56.1 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,964 | 54.6 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,240 | 45.2 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,826 | 57.9 |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,183 | 44.7 |
| 2003 | 108 | #1,749 | 59.1 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,053 | 46.7 |
| 2001 | 103 | #1,740 | 57.2 |
| 2000 | 115 | #1,551 | 63.3 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,454 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,893 | 45.8 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,010 | 40.8 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,028 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,568 | 27.9 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,483 | 28.6 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,657 | 25.4 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,734 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,142 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,404 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,446 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,111 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,590 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,871 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,224 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,733 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,591 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,654 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,805 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,081 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,294 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,588 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,558 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,280 | 25.3 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,545 | 21.3 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,803 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,573 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,236 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,594 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,517 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,324 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,336 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,155 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,340 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,231 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,271 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,297 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,425 | 5.1 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,340 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,647 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,667 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,504 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,193 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,791 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,713 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,902 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,345 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,491 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,420 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,798 | 4.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,701 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,086 | 5.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,702 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,034 | 6.0 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,383 | 7.5 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,280 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,073 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,194 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,814 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,902 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,817 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,834 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,550 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,075 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,251 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,455 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,712 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,271 | 13.9 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,162 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,202 | 14.2 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,310 | 15.1 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,750 | 21.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madelin, and how old are they?
2,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,231 Americans ever recorded as Madelin. The median Madelin alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,852 people named Madelin (3,839 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,646 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Madelin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 61 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 427 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 713 |
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 Madelin born?
The states with the most babies named Madelin are Texas, Georgia and California, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,142 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,040 | 0.2× |
| California | 6 | #2,966 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #2,277 | 1.4× |
Where Madelin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madelin is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Madelin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Madelin?
Madelin is a less common spelling of Madelyn: SSA has recorded 3,231 Madelin and 116,060 Madelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 190,989 babies since 1880, Madelin is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 4,950 babies (1.5%), again the fifth 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 Madelin
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 Madelin and names like it
- Compare Madelin and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadelin peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Madelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.