Madilynne
Feminine · “Hebrew Migdal”
Maudlin is Magdalene. English took the saint's name, applied it to the weeping figure painters had made of her, and ended up with an adjective for tearful sentimentality that no longer looks like a name at all.
How old is the name Madilynne?
Madilynne first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Madilynne alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 600 people named Madilynne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Madilynne most popular?
Madilynne peaked in 2009, reaching #4107 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 6,000 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Magdala to Madilynne
The story of Madilynne
Western art settled on one image of Mary Magdalene, penitent and in tears, and repeated it for centuries. The English pronunciation of her name eroded to maudlin, and by the sixteenth century that word had detached itself and become an ordinary adjective for weepy, oversentimental feeling, with no religious content left. The spelling stayed formal in the name and in the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, which are written Magdalen and Magdalene and said maudlin to this day. So the name behind Madilynne has produced a saint, two colleges, a town in Galilee and a common English adjective. The modern spelling adds an American suffix and a silent final e to a word that already carried more history than most sentences.
Meaning
Hebrew Migdal, of Magdala
Madeline descends from Magdalene, meaning of Magdala, a town on the Sea of Galilee whose name comes from a word for a tower. It is an epithet rather than a personal name; the woman's name was Mary. Madilynne is a modern American respelling that adds the -lynn suffix and a silent e; its peak is 2009.
How the name formed
- Magdala
- Magdalene
- Madeline
- Madilynne
Related forms: Madeleine · Magdalena · Madelyn
Pronouncing Madilynne
MAD-uh-lin
Three syllables, stress on the first. The final e is silent; Madelyn, Madilyn and Madilynne are homophones.
Nicknames for Madilynne
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
- 1997
- Most girls named
- 200937 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4107reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- +80.0%9 in 2025, from 5
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.
Madilynne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Madeleine in French — same name
- Magdalena in German — same name
- Madelyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Madilynnes among us
people named Madilynne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Madilynne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Madilynne
- #10107
- Madilynne on the 2025 chart
- #946
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Madilynne went to 9 girls in 2025, but Madilyne is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 14, which makes it the 946th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,161 places above the chart.
- Madilynne9
- Madilyne5
About 1 girl in 114,805 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Madilynne 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 Valen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Madilynne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Valen climbed just as high around 1983, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Valen's path sketches the road Madilynne is walking now.
Madilynne 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
Madilynne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Madilynne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Maddie is one of the most universally understood short forms in English.
- The name behind it is documented back to a specific town.
- Three syllables with a firm opening beat.
- This spelling has nine letters for three syllables of sound.
- Madeline and Madelyn are both far more common.
- It will be spelled out every time it is given.
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Frequently asked
- How many Madilynnes 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 Madilynne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Madilynne?
- Madilynne is the most-used spelling in US records — 9 of the 14 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Madilyne.
- How popular is the name Madilynne in 2025?
- Madilynne ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Madilynne?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Madilynne — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Madilynne with classmates?
- Madilynne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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