Madalyne
Feminine · “Hebrew Migdal”
The same name gets respelled twice in a century by two different logics. In the 1920s Madeline was reshaped with a French-looking -yne; in the 2000s it was reshaped again with an American -lynn. Madalyne is the older move.
How old is the name Madalyne?
Madalyne first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Madalyne alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 600 people named Madalyne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Madalyne most popular?
Madalyne peaked in 1922, reaching #2780 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 7,327 places below that high. See the whole 1922 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Magdalene to Madalyne
The story of Madalyne
Respelling is not one habit but several, and they can be dated. The wave of the 1910s and 1920s reached for endings that looked continental and literary: -yne, -ine, -elle, -ette, so Madalyne, Evelyne, Adaline and Rosalyne appear together in those decades, and they were meant to look sophisticated rather than novel. The wave of the 1990s and 2000s did something different: it treated -lyn, -lynn and -leigh as detachable suffixes and attached them to everything, so Madelynn, Madilynn and Madalynne belong to that period and read as modern. The same underlying name, Madeline, passed through both, and the spelling on a birth certificate therefore dates the certificate almost to the decade even when the sound is identical.
Meaning
Hebrew Migdal, of Magdala
A variant of Madeline, from Magdalene, meaning of Magdala, a town on the Sea of Galilee named for a tower. This spelling belongs to the earlier of the name's two American respelling waves; its peak is 1922.
How the name formed
- Magdalene
- Madeline
- Madalyne
Related forms: Madeleine · Madeline · Magdalena
Pronouncing Madalyne
MAD-uh-line
Three syllables, stress on the first. This spelling suggests a long final vowel, as in line, where the modern -lyn spellings suggest a short one.
Nicknames for Madalyne
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most girls named
- 200846 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2780reached in 1922
- Change vs 2024
- +12.5%9 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Madalyne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Madeleine in French — same name
- Madeline in English — spelling variant
- Magdalena in German — same name
Madalynes among us
people named Madalyne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Madalyne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Madalyne
- #10107
- Madalyne on the 2025 chart
- #920
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Madalyne went to 9 girls in 2025, but Madaline and Madalynne are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 40, which makes it the 920th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,187 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 40,182 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Madalyne itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Madalyne sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Madalyne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Madalyne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Maddie is a universally understood short form.
- The name behind it is documented to a specific town.
- The -yne ending signals the older pronunciation clearly.
- Madeline is the standard spelling.
- The final syllable has two possible readings.
- The 1922 peak dates this variant to the 1920s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Madalynes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Madalyne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Madalyne?
- Madalyne is one of 3 recorded spellings. Madaline is the more common one — 20 births in 2025 against 9 for Madalyne.
- How popular is the name Madalyne in 2025?
- Madalyne ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Madalyne?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Madalyne — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Madalyne with classmates?
- Madalyne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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