Madelynne
Feminine · “Of Magdala”
Madelynne is the most elaborated member of a very large family: Madeline, Madelyn, Madilyn, Madalyn, Madelynn, Madelynne. Nine letters where six would do, and every extra letter is a choice. Underneath is a fishing town on the Sea of Galilee.
How old is the name Madelynne?
Madelynne first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Madelynne alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,700 people named Madelynne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Madelynne most popular?
Madelynne peaked in 2000, reaching #1998 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 3,412 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Magdalēnē to Madelynne
The story of Madelynne
Madeleine has been ordinary in France since the Middle Ages, and English took Madeline from it. The medieval English pronunciation of the name gave English the word maudlin, from images of the weeping Magdalene. American use of the family climbed very steeply from the 1990s, and Madelyn entered the top hundred. What follows a climb like that is spelling proliferation, and the record holds at least a dozen variants. Madelynne is among the longest of them and peaks in 2000, near the front of the family's American surge rather than at its crest.
Meaning
Of Magdala
From Greek Magdalēnē, of Magdala, from Hebrew migdal, a tower. Mary Magdalene took the epithet from her town. The reading is settled. The -lynne ending is a twentieth-century American elaboration that pulls the name toward Lynn, with which it has no connection; the standard French Madeleine ends in a silent e that this spelling reproduces in a different position.
How the name formed
- Magdalēnē
- Madeleine
- Madelyn
- Madelynne
Related forms: Madeleine · Magdalena · Magdalena · Madelyn · Magdalena
Pronouncing Madelynne
MAD-uh-lin
Three syllables, stress on the first. The -lynne ending is said as a light reduced syllable; the three extra letters over -lyn add nothing to the sound.
Nicknames for Madelynne
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
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 2008103 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1998reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −4.2%23 in 2025, from 24
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.
Madelynne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Madeleine in French — related form
- Magdalena in German — related form
- Magdalena in Spanish — related form
- Madelyn in English — spelling variant
- Magdalena in Swedish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Madelynnes among us
people named Madelynne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Madelynne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Madelynne
- #5410
- Madelynne on the 2025 chart
- #90
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Madelynne went to 23 girls in 2025, but Madeline and Madelyne are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 3,205, which makes it the 90th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,320 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 501 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Madelynne 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 Charletta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Madelynne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Charletta climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Charletta's path sketches the road Madelynne is walking now.
Madelynne 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
Madelynne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Madelynne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Magdalene history is deep, documented and easy to explain.
- Maddy is a warm and universally understood short form.
- Everyone can say it on sight.
- Nobody will spell it correctly from hearing it.
- At least a dozen spellings of this name are in the American records.
- Nine letters is long for forms and will be truncated.
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Frequently asked
- How many Madelynnes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Madelynne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Madelynne?
- Madelynne is one of 3 recorded spellings. Madeline is the more common one — 3,086 births in 2025 against 23 for Madelynne.
- How popular is the name Madelynne in 2025?
- Madelynne ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Madelynne?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Madelynne — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Madelynne with classmates?
- Madelynne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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