Meaning not yet researched.
Madelaine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,043 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,043 in 1942; #5,337 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Madelaine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,337 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #1,043.
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Madelaine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,043 in 1942 · most girls in one year: 119 (1998).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Madelaine, making it the 5,337th most common girls’ name of the year, down 100 places from #5,237 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 25 girls named Madelaine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,043, reached in 1942. The most girls given the name in a single year was 119, in 1998. For comparison, it was #5,952 in 2015 and #2,031 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Madelaine in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 9 babies. In all, 3,398 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 940 babies named Madelaine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 265 US girls were named Madelaine; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Madeline (207,630 babies since 1880), Marlene (130,932 babies since 1880), Madeleine (45,737 babies since 1880) and Malena (4,058 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 Madelaine in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,337 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,237 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,330 | — | — |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,264 | — | — |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,507 | — | — |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,956 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,728 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,952 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,721 | — | — |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,763 | — | — |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,843 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 1998 | 119 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1992 | 69 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1991 | 81 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,104 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,664 | — | — |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,095 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,130 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,421 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,721 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,170 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,276 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,369 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,749 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,199 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,005 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,235 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,646 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,891 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,487 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,105 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,471 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,432 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,165 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,151 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,012 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,836 | — | — |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1947 | 52 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1942 | 57 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,116 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,665 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,668 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,615 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,851 | — | — |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,289 | — | — |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,591 | — | — |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,194 | — | — |
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).