Meaning not yet researched.
Madelynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 573 in 2025. Its best rank was #375 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #375 in 2009; #524 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Madelynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#524 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #375.
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Madelynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 573 girls in 2025. Peak: #375 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 862 (2009).
In 2025, 573 US girls were named Madelynn, making it the 524th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #518 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 595 girls named Madelynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #375, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 862. For comparison, it was #418 in 2015 and #4,177 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Madelynn in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 8 babies. In all, 18,937 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,322 babies named Madelynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,434 US girls were named Madelynn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 692. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Madelynn ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #195 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Madeline (207,630 babies since 1880), Madelyn (116,060 babies since 1880), Madilyn (23,632 babies since 1880) and Madalyn (23,222 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maddielynn and Maddylynn are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maddielynn (60), Maddylynn (10).
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 Madelynn 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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 9 | #195 | #388 |
| Maine | 5 | #243 | #248 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #289 | #362 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #297 | #284 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #324 | #396 |
| Alabama | 15 | #337 | #349 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #366 | #235 |
| Iowa | 9 | #369 | #322 |
| Indiana | 18 | #389 | #253 |
| Texas | 85 | #394 | #304 |
| Nevada | 7 | #406 | — |
| Virginia | 20 | #407 | #323 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #419 | #377 |
| Ohio | 27 | #425 | #261 |
| Arizona | 15 | #466 | #523 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #491 | #407 |
| Michigan | 16 | #512 | #356 |
| Georgia | 22 | #524 | #581 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #535 | #654 |
| Kansas | 6 | #553 | #441 |
| Washington | 12 | #564 | #542 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #593 | #416 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #608 | #330 |
| Colorado | 8 | #678 | #393 |
| Florida | 25 | #684 | #581 |
| California | 45 | #691 | #586 |
| Oregon | 5 | #695 | #308 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #706 | #534 |
| Illinois | 13 | #731 | #520 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #740 | #448 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #743 | #981 |
| Missouri | 7 | #779 | #435 |
| New York | 20 | #817 | #557 |
| Maryland | 5 | #945 | #476 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,111 | #760 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 573 | #524 | — | — |
| 2024 | 595 | #518 | — | — |
| 2023 | 623 | #490 | — | — |
| 2022 | 675 | #472 | — | — |
| 2021 | 642 | #491 | — | — |
| 2020 | 636 | #481 | — | — |
| 2019 | 676 | #460 | — | — |
| 2018 | 648 | #486 | — | — |
| 2017 | 692 | #459 | — | — |
| 2016 | 674 | #471 | — | — |
| 2015 | 770 | #418 | — | — |
| 2014 | 732 | #438 | — | — |
| 2013 | 767 | #401 | — | — |
| 2012 | 777 | #400 | — | — |
| 2011 | 780 | #403 | — | — |
| 2010 | 806 | #398 | — | — |
| 2009 | 862 | #375 | — | — |
| 2008 | 831 | #387 | — | — |
| 2007 | 680 | #473 | — | — |
| 2006 | 534 | #550 | — | — |
| 2005 | 524 | #549 | — | — |
| 2004 | 520 | #547 | — | — |
| 2003 | 515 | #541 | — | — |
| 2002 | 527 | #519 | — | — |
| 2001 | 498 | #537 | — | — |
| 2000 | 481 | #541 | — | — |
| 1999 | 354 | #652 | — | — |
| 1998 | 370 | #631 | — | — |
| 1997 | 211 | #944 | — | — |
| 1996 | 135 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,076 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,852 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,594 | — | — |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,727 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,859 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,062 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,658 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,404 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,667 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,717 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,154 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,601 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,050 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,700 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,253 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,594 | — | — |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,659 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,165 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,158 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,932 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,351 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,383 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,067 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,160 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,567 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,004 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,270 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,746 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,822 | — | — |
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).