Madelynne
Madelynne was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,495 among girls’ names; 1,805 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Madelynne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madelynne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madelynne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madelynne is “a female given name.”
A variant of Madeline, Madelyn with -lynne.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madelynne?
#5,495 among girls’ names, 2025
Madelynne fell from #3,376 in 2015 to #5,495 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 14.3 per million.
103 babies in 2008, the peak
Madelynne peaked in 2008, when 103 girls were given it, #2,025 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,495 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,382 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,875 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,263 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,868 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,611 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,852 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,630 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,119 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,262 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,376 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,629 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,715 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,793 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,160 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,507 | 41.6 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,130 | 51.7 |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,025 | 54.5 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,773 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,657 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,653 | 34.6 |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,218 | 43.6 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,215 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,129 | 44.0 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,393 | 36.7 |
| 2000 | 83 | #2,003 | 45.7 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,831 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,479 | 31.7 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,494 | 29.9 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,593 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,247 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,769 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,829 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,054 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,218 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,296 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,905 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,387 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,014 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,499 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,705 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,769 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,086 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,421 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,214 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,551 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,166 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,252 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,589 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madelynne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madelynne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madelynne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madelynne, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,805 Americans ever recorded as Madelynne. The median Madelynne alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,480 people named Madelynne (1,477 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,590 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 144 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 448 |
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 Madelynne born?
The states with the most babies named Madelynne are California, Texas and Ohio, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 136 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 127 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Madelynne 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 266,198 babies since 1880, Madelynne is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 3,913 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Madelynne
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 Madelynne and names like it
- Compare Madelynne and MadelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadelynne peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madelynne since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Madelynne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madelynne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.