Meaning not yet researched.
Madalyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 273 in 2025. Its best rank was #292 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #292 in 2008; #946 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Madalyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#946 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #292.
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Madalyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 273 girls in 2025. Peak: #292 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 1,144 (2008).
In 2025, 273 US girls were named Madalyn, making it the 946th most common girls’ name of the year, down 14 places from #932 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 285 girls named Madalyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #292, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,144. For comparison, it was #568 in 2015 and #1,256 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Madalyn in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1899 with 7 babies. In all, 23,222 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,724 babies named Madalyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,435 US girls were named Madalyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 490. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,887 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Madalyn ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #220 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Madelyn (116,060 babies since 1880), Madlyn (2,377 babies since 1880), Madilyn (23,632 babies since 1880) and Madelynn (18,937 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Madalynne and Maddalynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Serbian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Madalynne (706), Maddalynn (292).
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.
No nicknames listed for Madalyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 8 | #220 | #217 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #397 | #283 |
| Indiana | 15 | #463 | #409 |
| Alabama | 7 | #684 | #406 |
| Virginia | 11 | #690 | #541 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #711 | #417 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #738 | #344 |
| Ohio | 11 | #852 | #367 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #861 | #568 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #869 | #497 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #877 | #588 |
| Missouri | 6 | #881 | #487 |
| Maryland | 5 | #944 | #853 |
| Georgia | 10 | #960 | #580 |
| Texas | 30 | #975 | #685 |
| California | 28 | #992 | #863 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,154 | #724 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,191 | #493 |
| New York | 9 | #1,472 | #991 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 273 | #946 | — | — |
| 2024 | 285 | #932 | — | — |
| 2023 | 294 | #908 | — | — |
| 2022 | 261 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 2021 | 288 | #925 | — | — |
| 2020 | 333 | #819 | — | — |
| 2019 | 376 | #750 | — | — |
| 2018 | 384 | #733 | — | — |
| 2017 | 451 | #660 | — | — |
| 2016 | 490 | #613 | — | — |
| 2015 | 543 | #568 | — | — |
| 2014 | 595 | #519 | — | — |
| 2013 | 551 | #540 | — | — |
| 2012 | 692 | #451 | — | — |
| 2011 | 738 | #421 | — | — |
| 2010 | 883 | #362 | — | — |
| 2009 | 975 | #338 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,144 | #292 | — | — |
| 2007 | 881 | #372 | — | — |
| 2006 | 915 | #359 | — | — |
| 2005 | 875 | #359 | — | — |
| 2004 | 758 | #401 | — | — |
| 2003 | 808 | #377 | — | — |
| 2002 | 832 | #357 | — | — |
| 2001 | 785 | #376 | — | — |
| 2000 | 751 | #385 | — | — |
| 1999 | 615 | #439 | — | — |
| 1998 | 682 | #402 | — | — |
| 1997 | 562 | #453 | — | — |
| 1996 | 444 | #532 | — | — |
| 1995 | 399 | #575 | — | — |
| 1994 | 301 | #698 | — | — |
| 1993 | 241 | #823 | — | — |
| 1992 | 215 | #912 | — | — |
| 1991 | 180 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1990 | 152 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1989 | 147 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1987 | 103 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,151 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,113 | — | — |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,789 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,083 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,812 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,845 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,737 | — | — |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,769 | — | — |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,057 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1950 | 54 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1949 | 70 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1947 | 57 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1930 | 42 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1927 | 57 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1926 | 77 | #839 | — | — |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1924 | 68 | #925 | — | — |
| 1923 | 91 | #765 | — | — |
| 1922 | 87 | #782 | — | — |
| 1921 | 81 | #820 | — | — |
| 1920 | 48 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1919 | 49 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1918 | 77 | #819 | — | — |
| 1917 | 56 | #932 | — | — |
| 1916 | 60 | #881 | — | — |
| 1915 | 64 | #821 | — | — |
| 1914 | 42 | #912 | — | — |
| 1913 | 39 | #848 | — | — |
| 1912 | 37 | #826 | — | — |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1910 | 20 | #990 | — | — |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1908 | 17 | #993 | — | — |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1904 | 14 | #985 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,343 | — | — |
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).