Madlyn
Madlyn was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,267 among girls’ names; 2,377 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Madlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 20 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madlyn?
#14,267 among girls’ names, 2025
Madlyn fell from #8,746 in 2015 to #14,267 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.7 per million.
76 babies in 1922, the peak
Madlyn peaked in 1922, when 76 girls were given it, #843 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,267 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,768 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,787 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,162 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,764 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,988 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,092 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,553 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,558 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,746 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #9,318 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,251 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,491 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,040 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,390 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,715 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,833 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,230 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,481 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,323 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,668 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,886 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,704 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,155 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,728 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,134 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,244 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,685 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,244 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,141 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,518 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,833 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,190 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,446 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,323 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,451 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,909 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,950 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,347 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,842 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,966 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,924 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,948 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,297 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,657 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,490 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,363 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,111 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,245 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,562 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,988 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,415 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,694 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,197 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,318 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,236 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,605 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,312 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,161 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,102 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,912 | 15.1 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,090 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,941 | 14.6 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,038 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,760 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,681 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,699 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,726 | 18.4 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,779 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,688 | 18.6 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,459 | 23.7 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,331 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,501 | 23.6 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,089 | 14.6 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,332 | 28.1 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,215 | 33.8 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,669 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,636 | 21.0 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,376 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,325 | 29.8 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,660 | 20.6 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,236 | 32.9 |
| 1930 | 39 | #1,205 | 34.6 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,271 | 31.3 |
| 1928 | 38 | #1,246 | 32.9 |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,270 | 32.7 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,173 | 36.3 |
| 1925 | 46 | #1,144 | 37.8 |
| 1924 | 53 | #1,073 | 42.4 |
| 1923 | 59 | #973 | 48.9 |
| 1922 | 76 | #843 | 63.3 |
| 1921 | 45 | #1,142 | 36.5 |
| 1920 | 46 | #1,111 | 38.4 |
| 1919 | 51 | #1,015 | 45.1 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,114 | 38.0 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,214 | 33.3 |
| 1916 | 46 | #1,018 | 44.0 |
| 1915 | 51 | #931 | 51.8 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,071 | 42.0 |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,055 | 43.2 |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,067 | 43.0 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,344 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,049 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,889 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,629 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,345 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,385 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,635 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 15 | #956 | 54.5 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,396 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,532 | 26.5 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,104 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,516 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,457 | 27.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madlyn, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 46% of the 2,377 Americans ever recorded as Madlyn. The median Madlyn alive today is 35 years old; half are between 20 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 1,372 people named Madlyn (1,364 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,194 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 133 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 287 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 92 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 98 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 351 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 128 |
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 Madlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Madlyn are Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 133 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 113 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| West Virginia | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Madlyn 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, Madlyn is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 5,426 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Madlyn
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 Madlyn and names like it
- Compare Madlyn and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMadlyn peaked in 1922.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Madlyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madlyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.