Madilyn
Madilyn was given to 662 girls in 2025, #464 among girls’ names; 23,632 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,400 Americans named Madilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madilyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madilyn is “a female given name.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Madeline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madilyn?
#464 among girls’ names, 2025
Madilyn fell from #316 in 2015 to #464 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.58 to 0.41 per 1,000.
1,169 babies in 2008, the peak
Madilyn peaked in 2008, when 1,169 girls were given it, #288 among girls’ names. The 662 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 662 | #464 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 741 | #421 | 0.46 |
| 2023 | 848 | #360 | 0.53 |
| 2022 | 973 | #331 | 0.59 |
| 2021 | 1,019 | #319 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 950 | #326 | 0.59 |
| 2019 | 1,006 | #318 | 0.60 |
| 2018 | 989 | #328 | 0.58 |
| 2017 | 951 | #338 | 0.55 |
| 2016 | 1,005 | #327 | 0.57 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,028 | #316 | 0.58 |
| 2014 | 1,078 | #303 | 0.60 |
| 2013 | 947 | #341 | 0.54 |
| 2012 | 1,101 | #287 | 0.63 |
| 2011 | 1,057 | #301 | 0.60 |
| 2010 | 967 | #332 | 0.54 |
| 2009 | 1,147 | #290 | 0.62 |
| 2008 | 1,169 | #288 | 0.62 |
| 2007 | 860 | #383 | 0.45 |
| 2006 | 732 | #435 | 0.39 |
| 2005 | 610 | #499 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 584 | #504 | 0.32 |
| 2003 | 530 | #533 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 466 | #568 | 0.26 |
| 2001 | 447 | #575 | 0.25 |
| 2000 | 391 | #642 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 282 | #782 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 265 | #803 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 178 | #1,068 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 138 | #1,265 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,485 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,916 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,618 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,530 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,587 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,794 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,963 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,211 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,987 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,000 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,573 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,371 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,149 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,294 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,642 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,702 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,273 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madilyn, and how old are they?
23,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 23,632 Americans ever recorded as Madilyn. The median Madilyn alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 16,441 people named Madilyn (16,413 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,508 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,100 |
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 Madilyn born?
The states with the most babies named Madilyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 62 | #516 | 1.0× |
| California | 44 | #710 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 36 | #512 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 29 | #397 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 28 | #398 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 27 | #293 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 24 | #451 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 24 | #368 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 23 | #504 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 22 | #224 | 1.1× |
Where Madilyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madilyn is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1924 it was given 1.6 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 Madilyn 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, Madilyn is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 662 of their 5,426 babies (12%), again the second 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 Madilyn
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 Madilyn and names like it
- Compare Madilyn and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadilyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Madilyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Madilyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.