Girl

Madaline

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#6,036
20 girls
2015
#3,635
rank
1950
#1,516
rank

Madaline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #620 in 1906.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #620 in 1906; #6,036 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Madaline in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#6,036 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1906, at #620.

Babies in 2025
20
Since 1880
4,990
Years on record
134

Babies named Madaline, every year since 1880

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Girls

Madaline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #620 in 1906 · most girls in one year: 114 (1918).

About the name Madaline

In 2025, 20 US girls were named Madaline, making it the 6,036th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,504 places from #4,532 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 31 girls named Madaline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #620, reached in 1906. The most girls given the name in a single year was 114, in 1918. For comparison, it was #3,635 in 2015 and #1,516 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Madaline in 134 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 4,990 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 794 babies named Madaline.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 305 US girls were named Madaline; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Madeline (207,630 babies since 1880), Madeleine (45,737 babies since 1880), Madalyn (23,222 babies since 1880) and Madalynn (9,338 babies since 1880).

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Madaline in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202520#6,036——
202431#4,532——
202327#4,943——
202223#5,572——
202125#5,184——
202019#6,229——
201937#3,973——
201830#4,631——
201741#3,746——
201652#3,170——
201543#3,635——
201442#3,695——
201353#3,107——
201244#3,620——
201157#3,003——
201079#2,396——
200988#2,236——
200885#2,308——
200773#2,558——
200656#3,040——
200576#2,355——
200473#2,358——
200371#2,360——
200274#2,242——
200191#1,916——
200078#2,096——
199967#2,243——
199873#2,039——
199748#2,640——
199677#1,890——
199550#2,541——
199426#4,072——
199327#3,944——
199225#4,167——
199122#4,592——
199015#6,005——
198914#6,015——
198815#5,486——
198721#4,073——
198613#5,630——
19856#10,084——
19838#7,741——
19826#9,938——
19819#7,129——
19805#11,402——
197812#5,406——
19775#10,571——
197612#5,070——
197515#4,272——
197411#5,198——
197311#5,063——
19728#6,306——
197115#4,051——
197012#4,652——
196911#4,608——
196812#4,132——
196715#3,423——
196612#3,857——
196511#4,100——
196412#4,011——
196316#3,272——
196215#3,371——
196113#3,714——
196027#2,279——
195922#2,490——
195819#2,716——
195725#2,251——
195616#3,001——
195521#2,440——
195423#2,272——
195338#1,604——
195217#2,631——
195136#1,594——
195038#1,516——
194942#1,429——
194834#1,617——
194737#1,567——
194632#1,576——
194531#1,469——
194424#1,727——
194334#1,437——
194237#1,337——
194128#1,492——
194031#1,367——
193925#1,531——
193830#1,360——
193726#1,481——
193625#1,490——
193529#1,372——
193443#1,068——
193344#1,059——
193235#1,229——
193149#1,006——
193058#965——
192952#1,007——
192846#1,125——
192754#1,048——
192667#918——
192576#857——
192492#781——
192399#732——
192295#753——
1921102#729——
1920111#692——
191991#737——
1918114#669——
1917112#643——
191682#759——
191589#711——
191462#732——
191350#745——
191239#802——
191137#717——
191025#870——
190935#680——
190830#720——
190732#675——
190634#620——
190517#915——
190418#868——
190323#704——
190221#768——
190117#813——
190028#683——
189913#924——
189820#764——
189717#776——
189622#678——
189514#882——
189410#1,037——
18939#1,063——
18929#1,057——
189012#809——
18855#1,142——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).