Meaning not yet researched.
Madilyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 662 in 2025. Its best rank was #287 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #287 in 2012; #464 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Madilyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#464 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #287.
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Madilyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 662 girls in 2025. Peak: #287 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 1,169 (2008).
In 2025, 662 US girls were named Madilyn, making it the 464th most common girls’ name of the year, down 43 places from #421 in 2024. That is 79 fewer than the 741 girls named Madilyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #287, reached in 2012. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,169, in 2008. For comparison, it was #316 in 2015 and #4,178 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Madilyn in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 7 babies. In all, 23,632 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 10,129 babies named Madilyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,144 US girls were named Madilyn; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 1,019. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,428 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Madilyn ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #223 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), Madalyn (23,222 babies since 1880), Madelynn (18,937 babies since 1880) and Madilynn (11,432 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Madilynne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Madilynne (560).
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 Madilyn 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 18 | #223 | #177 |
| South Carolina | 22 | #224 | #330 |
| Kentucky | 18 | #254 | #205 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #257 | #86 |
| Alabama | 19 | #259 | #227 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #293 | #205 |
| Missouri | 18 | #343 | #353 |
| Arizona | 19 | #364 | #320 |
| Michigan | 24 | #368 | #239 |
| Utah | 12 | #378 | #271 |
| Maryland | 14 | #393 | #442 |
| Ohio | 29 | #397 | #251 |
| North Carolina | 28 | #398 | #286 |
| Indiana | 17 | #406 | #210 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #410 | #164 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #410 | #308 |
| Colorado | 14 | #419 | #319 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #423 | #178 |
| Kansas | 8 | #432 | #322 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #438 | #240 |
| Illinois | 24 | #451 | #299 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #465 | #655 |
| Iowa | 7 | #471 | #395 |
| Nevada | 6 | #479 | #313 |
| Georgia | 23 | #504 | #341 |
| Florida | 36 | #512 | #446 |
| Texas | 62 | #516 | #273 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #546 | #269 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #588 | — |
| Washington | 11 | #606 | #450 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #635 | #316 |
| Virginia | 12 | #639 | #468 |
| Oregon | 5 | #696 | #649 |
| California | 44 | #710 | #505 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #816 | — |
| New York | 18 | #886 | #540 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 662 | #464 | — | — |
| 2024 | 741 | #421 | — | — |
| 2023 | 848 | #360 | — | — |
| 2022 | 973 | #331 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,019 | #319 | — | — |
| 2020 | 950 | #326 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,006 | #318 | — | — |
| 2018 | 989 | #328 | — | — |
| 2017 | 951 | #338 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,005 | #327 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,028 | #316 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,078 | #303 | — | — |
| 2013 | 947 | #341 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,101 | #287 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,057 | #301 | — | — |
| 2010 | 967 | #332 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,147 | #290 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,169 | #288 | — | — |
| 2007 | 860 | #383 | — | — |
| 2006 | 732 | #435 | — | — |
| 2005 | 610 | #499 | — | — |
| 2004 | 584 | #504 | — | — |
| 2003 | 530 | #533 | — | — |
| 2002 | 466 | #568 | — | — |
| 2001 | 447 | #575 | — | — |
| 2000 | 391 | #642 | — | — |
| 1999 | 282 | #783 | — | — |
| 1998 | 265 | #803 | — | — |
| 1997 | 178 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1996 | 138 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,799 | — | — |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,216 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,992 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,003 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,088 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,575 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,951 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,292 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,672 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,698 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,373 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,892 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,024 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,156 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,662 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,827 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,275 | — | — |
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).