Madelyne
Madelyne was given to 81 girls in 2025, #2,270 among girls’ names; 3,502 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,040 Americans named Madelyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madelyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madelyne?
#2,270 among girls’ names, 2025
Madelyne rose from #2,873 in 2015 to #2,270 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 34.2 to 50.4 per million.
129 babies in 2000, the peak
Madelyne peaked in 2000, when 129 girls were given it, #1,427 among girls’ names. The 81 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #2,270 | 50.4 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,834 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,925 | 36.1 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,338 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,978 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,052 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,877 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,539 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,535 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,893 | 33.3 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,873 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,032 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,888 | 33.6 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,068 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,359 | 44.9 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,231 | 48.9 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,052 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,986 | 56.1 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,049 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 111 | #1,839 | 58.4 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,047 | 49.8 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,694 | 62.6 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,572 | 67.3 |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,676 | 61.2 |
| 2001 | 126 | #1,493 | 70.0 |
| 2000 | 129 | #1,427 | 71.0 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,588 | 59.8 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,536 | 61.7 |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,907 | 44.2 |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,095 | 37.6 |
| 1995 | 81 | #1,777 | 46.1 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,565 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,472 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,379 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,064 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,765 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,842 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,124 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,930 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,872 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,082 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,901 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,616 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,401 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,721 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,845 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,748 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,597 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,062 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,305 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,057 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,343 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,695 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,798 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,193 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,131 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,801 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,219 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,163 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,749 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,012 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,970 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,215 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,668 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,120 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,370 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,506 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,851 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,338 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,884 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,792 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,941 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,767 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,846 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,977 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,041 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,346 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,510 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,490 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,799 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,395 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,516 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,343 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,087 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,792 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,850 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,667 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,437 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,384 | 7.5 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,673 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,250 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,195 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,420 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,451 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,748 | 20.0 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,808 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,933 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,022 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,227 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,830 | 18.6 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,850 | 18.1 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,748 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,774 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,481 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,366 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,573 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,528 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,707 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madelyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madelyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madelyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madelyne, and how old are they?
3,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 3,502 Americans ever recorded as Madelyne. The median Madelyne alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,575 people named Madelyne (2,569 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,753 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 | 48 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 113 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 96 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 417 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 756 |
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 Madelyne born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,250 | 1.1× |
| California | 9 | #2,210 | 0.9× |
Where Madelyne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madelyne is most over-represented in Texas: since 1911 it was given 1.1 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 Madelyne 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 Madelyne?
Madelyne is a less common spelling of Madeline: SSA has recorded 3,502 Madelyne and 207,630 Madeline since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 271,192 babies since 1880, Madelyne is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 81 of their 3,921 babies (2.1%), the third most given that year.
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 Madelyne
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 Madelyne and names like it
- Compare Madelyne and MadelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadelyne peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madelyne since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Madelyne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madelyne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.