Madilynn
Madilynn was given to 315 girls in 2025, #860 among girls’ names; 11,432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Madilynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madilynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madilynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madilynn is “a female given name.”
Rare fanciful spelling of Madeline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madilynn?
#860 among girls’ names, 2025
Madilynn fell from #499 in 2015 to #860 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.36 to 0.20 per 1,000.
656 babies in 2014, the peak
Madilynn peaked in 2014, when 656 girls were given it, #479 among girls’ names. The 315 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 315 | #860 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 359 | #784 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 388 | #727 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 531 | #567 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 583 | #531 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 600 | #506 | 0.37 |
| 2019 | 579 | #529 | 0.34 |
| 2018 | 557 | #560 | 0.33 |
| 2017 | 557 | #554 | 0.32 |
| 2016 | 598 | #520 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 639 | #499 | 0.36 |
| 2014 | 656 | #479 | 0.37 |
| 2013 | 568 | #526 | 0.32 |
| 2012 | 528 | #559 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 533 | #547 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 518 | #562 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 553 | #552 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 461 | #667 | 0.24 |
| 2007 | 356 | #805 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 256 | #1,007 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 204 | #1,143 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 187 | #1,199 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 187 | #1,157 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 158 | #1,255 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 113 | #1,623 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 115 | #1,552 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,726 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,111 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,716 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,473 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,043 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,879 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,434 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,342 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,435 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madilynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madilynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madilynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madilynn, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,432 Americans ever recorded as Madilynn. The median Madilynn alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 7,247 people named Madilynn (7,239 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,746 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 121 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,890 |
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 Madilynn born?
The states with the most babies named Madilynn are Texas, Ohio and California, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #894 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 21 | #510 | 1.5× |
| California | 20 | #1,261 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #714 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 13 | #532 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,155 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 12 | #501 | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 12 | #636 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | #894 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #849 | 0.8× |
Where Madilynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madilynn is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1987 it was given 1.7 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 Madilynn 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 206,741 babies since 1880, Madilynn is the fifth most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 315 of their 5,352 babies (5.9%), the fourth 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 Madilynn
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 Madilynn and names like it
- Compare Madilynn and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMadilynn peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madilynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Madilynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Madilynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.