Madelynn
Madelynn was given to 573 girls in 2025, #524 among girls’ names; 18,937 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,700 Americans named Madelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madelynn is “a female given name.”
Blend of Madeleine + Lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madelynn?
#524 among girls’ names, 2025
Madelynn fell from #418 in 2015 to #524 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.43 to 0.36 per 1,000.
862 babies in 2009, the peak
Madelynn peaked in 2009, when 862 girls were given it, #375 among girls’ names. The 573 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 573 | #524 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 595 | #518 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 623 | #490 | 0.39 |
| 2022 | 675 | #472 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 642 | #491 | 0.39 |
| 2020 | 636 | #481 | 0.39 |
| 2019 | 676 | #460 | 0.40 |
| 2018 | 648 | #486 | 0.38 |
| 2017 | 692 | #459 | 0.40 |
| 2016 | 674 | #471 | 0.38 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 770 | #418 | 0.43 |
| 2014 | 732 | #438 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 767 | #401 | 0.44 |
| 2012 | 777 | #400 | 0.44 |
| 2011 | 780 | #403 | 0.44 |
| 2010 | 806 | #398 | 0.45 |
| 2009 | 862 | #375 | 0.47 |
| 2008 | 831 | #387 | 0.44 |
| 2007 | 680 | #473 | 0.35 |
| 2006 | 534 | #550 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 524 | #549 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 520 | #547 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 515 | #541 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 527 | #519 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 498 | #537 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 481 | #541 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 354 | #652 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 370 | #631 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 211 | #943 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 135 | #1,282 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,348 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,772 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,470 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,593 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,908 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,260 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,847 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,591 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,060 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,715 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,152 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,599 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,658 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,164 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,931 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,235 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,255 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,158 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,387 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,482 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,036 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,160 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,173 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,148 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,119 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,565 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,922 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,237 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,269 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,745 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,072 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,820 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madelynn, and how old are they?
18,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,937 Americans ever recorded as Madelynn. The median Madelynn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 13,187 people named Madelynn (13,163 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,150 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 27 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 148 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 613 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,650 |
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 Madelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Madelynn are Texas, California and Ohio, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 85 | #394 | 1.1× |
| California | 45 | #691 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 27 | #425 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 25 | #684 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 22 | #524 | 0.8× |
| New York | 20 | #817 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 20 | #407 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 19 | #419 | 1.2× |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #289 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 18 | #389 | 1.5× |
Where Madelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madelynn is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1920 it was given 1.5 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 Madelynn 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, Madelynn is the fourth most given (9.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 573 of their 5,426 babies (11%), 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 Madelynn
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 Madelynn and names like it
- Compare Madelynn and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadelynn peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Madelynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madelynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.