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Madina

Feminine · “city”

1966high 2023
#2298 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare79 girls in 2025

Madina is the city in Arabic — al-Madina, the Prophet's city, which changed its name when he arrived.

How old is the name Madina?

Madina first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Madina is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,500 people named Madina are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Madina most popular?

Madina peaked in 2023, reaching #2210 nationally. Today it ranks #2298, 88 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Madina

Yathrib took a new name when the Prophet migrated there in 622 — the city, simply — and the Islamic calendar counts from that year. The medina quarters of Fez, Tunis and Marrakesh carry the same word. Madina is used as a given name across Muslim and Central Asian naming and is in current American use.

Meaning

city

From the Arabic madina, 'city', from a root relating to law and settlement. Yathrib was renamed Madinat an-Nabi, 'city of the Prophet', after the migration, and shortened to al-Madina. The old walled quarter of North African cities is the medina from the same word. The Arabic is documented.

How the name formed

  1. madina
  2. Madina

Related forms: مدينة · Medina · Madina

Pronouncing Madina

mah-DEE-nah

Three syllables, stress in the middle. Medina and Madina are said nearly identically.

Nicknames for Madina

Moderate

MadiThe front of the name, and a short form with real modern currency
DinaThe back of the name, and a name in its own right with a real record
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1966–202585430857919662025

US babies named Madina per year from 1966 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#22101960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1966
Most girls named
202385 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2210reached in 2023
Change vs 2024
−7.1%79 in 2025, from 85
Madina sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2023, with 85 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Madina in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • مدينة in Arabic — transliteration
  • Medina in English — spelling variant
  • Madina in Kazakh — same name

Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Michigan.

Madinas among us

1,500

people named Madina are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 20,345 born in 2025 was named Madina

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Madina

#2298
Madina on the 2025 chart
#867
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Madina went to 79 girls in 2025, but Madinah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 93, which makes it the 867th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,431 places above the chart.

  • Madina79
  • Madinah14

About 1 girl in 17,282 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 20,345 for Madina 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

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Is it right for you

The Talena test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Madina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Talena climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Talena's path sketches the road Madina is walking now.

40%chance Madina will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Madina, aligned on its peakTalena· peak 1976not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsTalena · #13477Madina today
Madina today is about where Talena stood in 1978 — 2 years past a #2210-sized peak. By 1993, Talena had settled around #6964.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Madina 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

Where Madina is headed

19662030

US babies named Madina per year, 1966 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Madina looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.

Rising+15% by 2030projected around #2,179 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Madina beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Madina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Madinathis name79#2298Shyla79#2298Skylah79#2298Therese79#2298Jennie79#2298

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That a city renamed itself simply 'the city' is a first-rate fact.
  • Madi and Dina are two short forms, both with real records.
  • Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
What to consider
  • It is a sacred place name, which some families will weigh.
  • Medina is the commoner English spelling.
  • It reads as specifically Muslim.

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Frequently asked

How many Madinas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Madina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Madina?
Madina is the most-used spelling in US records — 79 of the 93 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Madinah.
How popular is the name Madina in 2025?
Madina ranks #2298 among US girl names in 2025, with 79 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Madina?
About 1 in every 20,345 US girls born in 2025 was named Madina — 79 in all.
Will my child share the name Madina with classmates?
Madina will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Madina

Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.

Shyla#2298 · Skylah#2298 · Therese#2298 · Jennie#2298 · Shira#2298 · Jahzara#2298 · Emelyn#2298 · Khelani#2298

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