Meaning not yet researched.
Madilynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 315 in 2025. Its best rank was #479 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #479 in 2014; #860 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Madilynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#860 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #479.
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Madilynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 315 girls in 2025. Peak: #479 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 656 (2014).
In 2025, 315 US girls were named Madilynn, making it the 860th most common girls’ name of the year, down 76 places from #784 in 2024. That is 44 fewer than the 359 girls named Madilynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #479, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 656. For comparison, it was #499 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Madilynn in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 8 babies. In all, 11,432 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,733 babies named Madilynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,067 US girls were named Madilynn; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 600. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,102 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Madilynn ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #258 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 Madilynn 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #258 | #336 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #325 | #273 |
| Kansas | 9 | #390 | #442 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #411 | #259 |
| Alabama | 11 | #469 | #438 |
| Missouri | 12 | #501 | #255 |
| Ohio | 21 | #510 | #291 |
| Indiana | 13 | #532 | #323 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #602 | #358 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #636 | #266 |
| Iowa | 5 | #645 | #396 |
| Virginia | 11 | #691 | #406 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #711 | #206 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #714 | #510 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #744 | #427 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #795 | #260 |
| Michigan | 9 | #835 | #413 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #849 | #453 |
| Colorado | 6 | #866 | #468 |
| Texas | 33 | #894 | #478 |
| Georgia | 11 | #894 | #649 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,155 | #757 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,192 | #652 |
| California | 20 | #1,261 | #864 |
| New York | 11 | #1,278 | #1,182 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 315 | #860 | — | — |
| 2024 | 359 | #784 | — | — |
| 2023 | 388 | #727 | — | — |
| 2022 | 531 | #567 | — | — |
| 2021 | 583 | #531 | — | — |
| 2020 | 600 | #506 | — | — |
| 2019 | 579 | #529 | — | — |
| 2018 | 557 | #560 | — | — |
| 2017 | 557 | #554 | — | — |
| 2016 | 598 | #520 | — | — |
| 2015 | 639 | #499 | — | — |
| 2014 | 656 | #479 | — | — |
| 2013 | 568 | #526 | — | — |
| 2012 | 528 | #559 | — | — |
| 2011 | 533 | #547 | — | — |
| 2010 | 518 | #562 | — | — |
| 2009 | 553 | #552 | — | — |
| 2008 | 461 | #667 | — | — |
| 2007 | 356 | #805 | — | — |
| 2006 | 256 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 2005 | 204 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 2004 | 187 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 2003 | 187 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2002 | 158 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 2001 | 113 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 2000 | 115 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,478 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,048 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,885 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,440 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,697 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,349 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,799 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,385 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,440 | — | — |
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).