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).