Maddelyn
Feminine · “of Magdala”
There is an English adjective made from this name. Medieval and Renaissance painters showed Mary Magdalene weeping, and so many of them did it that maudlin, the French pronunciation of Magdalene, became the English word for tearful sentimentality. No other woman's name has produced one.
How old is the name Maddelyn?
Maddelyn first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Maddelyn alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 700 people named Maddelyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maddelyn most popular?
Maddelyn peaked in 2017, reaching #3552 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 2,773 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Magdala to Maddelyn
The story of Maddelyn
Magdalene became Madeleine in French and Madeline in English, and the town of Magdala vanished from view behind the woman. The name's second life in English is odd: because the Magdalene was painted weeping for six centuries, French Madeleine, said maudelen, gave English the adjective maudlin, and a Magdalen was also a name for a reformed-woman's asylum. Modern American use has none of this attached to it; the name arrived through Madeline and Madelyn in the 1990s and 2000s and generated a long list of spellings. Maddelyn is one of the latest, doubling the d to protect the short a, and its best year is 2017.
Meaning
of Magdala, a town on the Sea of Galilee
Magdalene is a place adjective, not a personal name: Mary the Magdalene means Mary from Magdala, a fishing town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee whose name is usually connected to a Hebrew or Aramaic word for a tower. The -lyn ending of this spelling is a modern English substitution for the French -line and carries no meaning.
How the name formed
- Magdala
- Magdalene
- Madeleine
- Madelyn
- Maddelyn
Related forms: Madeleine · Magdalena · Magdalena · Magdalena · Madelyn
Pronouncing Maddelyn
MAD-uh-lin
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The doubled d is what keeps the first vowel short; without it English readers drift toward MAY-duh-lin.
Nicknames for Maddelyn
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
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 201743 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3552reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- −10.0%18 in 2025, from 20
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.
Maddelyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Madeleine in French — same name
- Magdalena in German — same name
- Magdalena in Spanish — same name
- Magdalena in Polish — same name
- Madelyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Maddelyns among us
people named Maddelyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Maddelyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maddelyn
- #6325
- Maddelyn on the 2025 chart
- #65
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maddelyn went to 18 girls in 2025, but Madelyn, Madelynn and Madelin are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 4,032, which makes it the 65th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,260 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 399 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,293 for Maddelyn 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
The Jacquilyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maddelyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacquilyn climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacquilyn's path sketches the road Maddelyn is walking now.
Maddelyn 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
Maddelyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maddelyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning, a real town, and one of the most-depicted figures in Western art behind it.
- Maddie is instantly available and completely familiar.
- The doubled d makes the pronunciation unambiguous, which the standard spelling does not.
- Madelyn, Madeline, Madalyn and Madilyn are all far more common.
- Maddie is shared with several other names, so it identifies nobody.
- The -lyn ending is closely dated to the last two decades.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maddelyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Maddelyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maddelyn?
- Maddelyn is one of 4 recorded spellings. Madelyn is the more common one — 3,362 births in 2025 against 18 for Maddelyn.
- How popular is the name Maddelyn in 2025?
- Maddelyn ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maddelyn?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Maddelyn — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maddelyn with classmates?
- Maddelyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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