Madelina — #7259 US girls' name
389 babies named Madelina in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 59% of names given to girls today.
33% of everyone ever named Madelina was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Madelina in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Madelina
The Social Security Administration has registered 389 babies named Madelina between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Madelina currently holds the #7259 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Madelina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 130 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Madelina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Madelina in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Madelina 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 389 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.
Madelina at a glance
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Current rank
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Madelina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1915
- Peak year (2022)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 110 years of records
Currently ranks #7259 among girls.
389 total births across 110 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 20 births in a single year.
Madelina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 130 births that decade — 33% of Madelina's all-time total
Madelina decade highlights
- Peak decade 130 births
- Runner-up 71 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Madelina's strongest decade
130 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Madelina by state
Where Madelina concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.3% |
5 of 389 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.