Madora
Madora was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 356 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madora is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madora?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,471, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1922, the peak
Madora peaked in 1922, when 16 girls were given it, #2,350 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #14,471 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,574 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,602 | 3.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,808 | 2.9 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,372 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,263 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,188 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,195 | 3.3 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,024 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,071 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 7 | #3,876 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,989 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,087 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,424 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,800 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,717 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,660 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,724 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,600 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,342 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,036 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,209 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,712 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,500 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,005 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,627 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,113 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,124 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,874 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,903 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,261 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,350 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,724 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,025 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,456 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,766 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,499 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,876 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,063 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,971 | 17.1 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,459 | 12.8 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,708 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,311 | 15.1 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,969 | 18.8 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,418 | 29.2 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,512 | 25.2 |
| 1883 | 5 | #995 | 44.5 |
| 1880 | 5 | #898 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madora, and how old are they?
An estimated 73 Americans named Madora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 220 people named Madora (220 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times 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.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Madora
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 Madora and names like it
- Compare Madora and CathernBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMadora peaked in 1922.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Madora.
- Names starting with MMost given first.