Madelon
Madelon was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 1,787 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madelon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madelon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,228, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1920, the peak
Madelon peaked in 1920, when 53 girls were given it, #1,025 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,228 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,424 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,102 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,130 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,016 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,058 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,507 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,109 | 5.3 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,632 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,951 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 14 | #7,666 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,837 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,674 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,704 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,716 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,051 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,980 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,468 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,276 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,832 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,824 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,445 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,295 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,782 | 6.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,120 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,013 | 2.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,056 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,772 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,151 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,487 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,586 | 4.1 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,244 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,165 | 5.7 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,748 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,930 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,861 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,381 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,181 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,001 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,907 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,505 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,405 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,739 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,720 | 17.8 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,698 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,497 | 22.2 |
| 1948 | 38 | #1,508 | 22.4 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,294 | 28.2 |
| 1946 | 36 | #1,472 | 22.9 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,856 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,778 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,648 | 19.4 |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,172 | 34.1 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,201 | 33.1 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,537 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,571 | 21.9 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,293 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,666 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,623 | 21.1 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,750 | 19.1 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,587 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 31 | #1,300 | 30.8 |
| 1932 | 43 | #1,091 | 40.3 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,532 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,449 | 25.8 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,360 | 28.7 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,449 | 26.0 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,652 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,316 | 30.4 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,242 | 32.9 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,459 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,757 | 19.9 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,279 | 31.6 |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,216 | 33.3 |
| 1920 | 53 | #1,025 | 44.2 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,115 | 38.9 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,270 | 31.1 |
| 1917 | 39 | #1,157 | 36.1 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,239 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,386 | 27.4 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,112 | 39.4 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,642 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,164 | 37.6 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,509 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,150 | 40.4 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,185 | 37.4 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,401 | 29.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,469 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,116 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,373 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,586 | 25.4 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,285 | 34.1 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,835 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,670 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,246 | 34.3 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,700 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madelon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madelon has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madelon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madelon, and how old are they?
An estimated 681 Americans named Madelon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 30 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 898 people named Madelon (889 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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).
Where are babies named Madelon born?
The states with the most babies named Madelon are New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 105 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 40 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| West Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Madelon 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 190,989 babies since 1880, Madelon is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,950 babies recorded by SSA was a Madelon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Madelon
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 Madelon and names like it
- Compare Madelon and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMadelon peaked in 1920.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madelon since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Madelon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Madelon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.