Madolyn
Madolyn was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 1,743 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madolyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madolyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,489, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1921, the peak
Madolyn peaked in 1921, when 45 girls were given it, #1,143 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,489 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,719 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,260 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,093 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,231 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,103 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,283 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,626 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,390 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,936 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | #8,955 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,723 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,226 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,381 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,428 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,321 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,913 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,563 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,887 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,340 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,835 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,430 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,254 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,695 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,457 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,198 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,617 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,191 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,134 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,393 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,831 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,431 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,452 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,196 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,740 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,628 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,724 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,404 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,925 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,696 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,417 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,256 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,528 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,299 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,619 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,488 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,479 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,836 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,698 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,700 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,963 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,763 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,314 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,405 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,619 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,942 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,656 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,713 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,557 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,967 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,063 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,402 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,165 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,519 | 22.3 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,165 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,644 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,075 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,152 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,108 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,384 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,053 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,813 | 18.9 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,613 | 21.6 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,842 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,077 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,260 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,571 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,855 | 18.4 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,604 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,523 | 24.6 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,790 | 19.2 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,341 | 29.0 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,556 | 24.1 |
| 1921 | 45 | #1,143 | 36.5 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,335 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,632 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,399 | 26.8 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,358 | 27.7 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,429 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 29 | #1,329 | 29.5 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,113 | 39.4 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,574 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,333 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,272 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,715 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,407 | 14.4 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,186 | 37.7 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,505 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,120 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,587 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,717 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,533 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,838 | 20.9 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,851 | 19.3 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,734 | 21.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madolyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madolyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madolyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madolyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 940 Americans named Madolyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 976 people named Madolyn (976 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,015 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 207,595 babies since 1880, Madolyn is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 5,420 babies recorded by SSA was a Madolyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Madolyn
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 Madolyn and names like it
- Compare Madolyn and MadelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMadolyn peaked in 1921.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madolyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Madolyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madolyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.