Madelyn
Madelyn was given to 3,362 girls in 2025, #71 among girls’ names; 116,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 107,000 Americans named Madelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madelyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madelyn is “a female given name from French, variant of Madeline.”
An alteration of Madeline with -lyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madelyn?
#71 among girls’ names, 2025
Madelyn fell from #59 in 2015 to #71 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.5 to 2.1 per 1,000.
4,572 babies in 2008, the peak
Madelyn peaked in 2008, when 4,572 babies were given it (4,567 girls, #64 among girls’ names). The 3,362 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,362 | #71 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 3,373 | #65 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 3,645 | #58 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 3,724 | #60 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 3,429 | #71 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 3,552 | #66 | 2.2 |
| 2019 | 3,581 | #72 | 2.1 |
| 2018 | 3,652 | #72 | 2.1 |
| 2017 | 3,967 | #63 | 2.3 |
| 2016 | 4,241 | #62 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (136)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,486 | #59 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 4,312 | #60 | 2.4 |
| 2013 | 3,940 | #68 | 2.2 |
| 2012 | 3,795 | #67 | 2.2 |
| 2011 | 3,604 | #79 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 3,621 | #76 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 4,496 | #59 | 2.4 |
| 2008 | 4,567 | #64 | 2.4 |
| 2007 | 3,216 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 2006 | 2,949 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 2005 | 3,021 | #107 | 1.6 |
| 2004 | 3,006 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 2003 | 2,985 | #115 | 1.6 |
| 2002 | 2,852 | #120 | 1.6 |
| 2001 | 2,844 | #121 | 1.6 |
| 2000 | 2,684 | #126 | 1.5 |
| 1999 | 1,896 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 1998 | 1,928 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1997 | 1,160 | #252 | 0.67 |
| 1996 | 865 | #323 | 0.49 |
| 1995 | 716 | #365 | 0.41 |
| 1994 | 561 | #455 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 475 | #516 | 0.26 |
| 1992 | 404 | #578 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 351 | #637 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 284 | #734 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 237 | #806 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 170 | #976 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 181 | #919 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 197 | #846 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,748 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,008 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,707 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,410 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,655 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,452 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 101 | #1,265 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 98 | #1,262 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 82 | #1,372 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 82 | #1,324 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,322 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 89 | #1,230 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 75 | #1,347 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 97 | #1,139 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,483 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 94 | #1,204 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 95 | #1,146 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 90 | #1,131 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 86 | #1,144 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 92 | #1,100 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 115 | #956 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 125 | #944 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 114 | #999 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 121 | #971 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 160 | #832 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 142 | #872 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 172 | #779 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 177 | #749 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 178 | #746 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 150 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 185 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 207 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 226 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1952 | 193 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1951 | 223 | #574 | 0.12 |
| 1950 | 248 | #517 | 0.14 |
| 1949 | 256 | #509 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 244 | #529 | 0.14 |
| 1947 | 250 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1946 | 270 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1945 | 174 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1944 | 197 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1943 | 218 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1942 | 278 | #436 | 0.21 |
| 1941 | 225 | #463 | 0.19 |
| 1940 | 185 | #510 | 0.16 |
| 1939 | 211 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1938 | 186 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1937 | 165 | #512 | 0.16 |
| 1936 | 113 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 124 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 175 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1933 | 138 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 164 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 164 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 188 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1929 | 209 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1928 | 239 | #441 | 0.21 |
| 1927 | 265 | #423 | 0.22 |
| 1926 | 293 | #402 | 0.25 |
| 1925 | 300 | #396 | 0.25 |
| 1924 | 315 | #385 | 0.25 |
| 1923 | 310 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1922 | 305 | #373 | 0.25 |
| 1921 | 331 | #367 | 0.27 |
| 1920 | 302 | #381 | 0.25 |
| 1919 | 285 | #382 | 0.25 |
| 1918 | 275 | #395 | 0.24 |
| 1917 | 266 | #386 | 0.25 |
| 1916 | 246 | #402 | 0.24 |
| 1915 | 209 | #416 | 0.21 |
| 1914 | 227 | #349 | 0.30 |
| 1913 | 155 | #390 | 0.25 |
| 1912 | 125 | #417 | 0.22 |
| 1911 | 71 | #491 | 0.17 |
| 1910 | 65 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 69 | #452 | 0.20 |
| 1908 | 43 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 44 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 57 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1905 | 34 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1904 | 37 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 47 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 26 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1901 | 21 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 39 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1899 | 28 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 25 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 20 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 26 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 15 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 12 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madelyn has been given almost only to girls: 50 boys in 136 years of records.
Girls and boys named Madelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madelyn, and how old are they?
107,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 116,060 Americans ever recorded as Madelyn. The median Madelyn alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 82,365 people named Madelyn (82,233 women and girls, 132 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88,067 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,030 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,750 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 48,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 49,000 |
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 Madelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Madelyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 419 | #59 | 0.8× |
| California | 328 | #91 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 175 | #91 | 0.7× |
| New York | 169 | #81 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 155 | #51 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 142 | #59 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 124 | #58 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 115 | #72 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 115 | #78 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 105 | #60 | 1.2× |
Where Madelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madelyn is most over-represented in Wisconsin: 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 Madelyn 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 208,229 babies since 1880, Madelyn is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,362 of their 5,426 babies (62%), again the 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 Madelyn
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 Madelyn and names like it
- Compare Madelyn and MadilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadelyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Madelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Madelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.