Meaning not yet researched.
Madalynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 161 in 2025. Its best rank was #544 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #544 in 2009; #1,370 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Madalynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,370 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #544.
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Madalynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 161 girls in 2025. Peak: #544 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 557 (2009).
In 2025, 161 US girls were named Madalynn, making it the 1,370th most common girls’ name of the year, down 191 places from #1,179 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 204 girls named Madalynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #544, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 557. For comparison, it was #679 in 2015 and #5,069 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Madalynn in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 7 babies. In all, 9,338 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,010 babies named Madalynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,487 US girls were named Madalynn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 356. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,983 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Madalynn ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #480 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), Madilyn (23,632 babies since 1880), Madalyn (23,222 babies since 1880) and Madelynn (18,937 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Madalynn 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 9 | #480 | #254 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #742 | #851 |
| Ohio | 11 | #853 | #426 |
| Indiana | 7 | #883 | #560 |
| Texas | 32 | #911 | #669 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,030 | #545 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,039 | #609 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,073 | #532 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,329 | #857 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,343 | #392 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,804 | #926 |
| California | 7 | #2,668 | #1,043 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 161 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 2024 | 204 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 2023 | 193 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 2022 | 195 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 2021 | 209 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 2020 | 258 | #989 | — | — |
| 2019 | 283 | #933 | — | — |
| 2018 | 297 | #907 | — | — |
| 2017 | 331 | #823 | — | — |
| 2016 | 356 | #800 | — | — |
| 2015 | 420 | #679 | — | — |
| 2014 | 438 | #652 | — | — |
| 2013 | 450 | #621 | — | — |
| 2012 | 446 | #640 | — | — |
| 2011 | 481 | #596 | — | — |
| 2010 | 508 | #578 | — | — |
| 2009 | 557 | #544 | — | — |
| 2008 | 527 | #592 | — | — |
| 2007 | 443 | #667 | — | — |
| 2006 | 342 | #801 | — | — |
| 2005 | 318 | #815 | — | — |
| 2004 | 301 | #827 | — | — |
| 2003 | 276 | #875 | — | — |
| 2002 | 249 | #900 | — | — |
| 2001 | 220 | #979 | — | — |
| 2000 | 194 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1998 | 137 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1996 | 70 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,329 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,147 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,434 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,382 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,200 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,439 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,479 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,069 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,400 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,972 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,283 | — | — |
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).