Madelaine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Madelaine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 6.6K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 104K
- ECEcuador1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,204 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madelaine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,204 | 1 in 104K | 3.2K | Madelaine | 293 |
| SE Sweden | #806 | 1,535 | 1 in 6.6K | 1.5K | Madelaine | 49 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,364 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Madelaine | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 588 | 1 in 360K | 588 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 192 | 1 in 90K | 192 | Madelaine | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 162 | 1 in 21K | 162 | — | — |
3,204 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Madelaine Hemingway Millerb. 1904US28 Nov 1904 - 14 Jan 1995
- Yvonne Brillb. 1924CAnot in their usual nameCanadian scientist (1924-2013)
- Madelaine Böhmeb. 1967DEGerman palaeontologist
- Margot Boerb. 1985NLnot in their usual nameDutch speed skater
- Madelaine Edlundb. 1985SESwedish association football player
- Madelaine Petschb. 1994USAmerican actress and YouTuber
- West Duchovnyb. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Maddie Leechb. 2003GBnot in their usual nameBritish cyclist
- Madeleine Powernot in their usual nameactress
- Madelaine NewtonGBBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,378 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.5K | #1,264 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.4K | #773 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 650 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 588 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 585 | #11,964 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 536 | #13,704 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 192 | #3,685 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 162 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 153 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 83 | #8,898 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 27 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Madelaine have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Madelaine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madelaine.
- Where is Madelaine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Madelaine is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Madelaine a male or female name?
- Madelaine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Madelaine?
- In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Magali and Madeline are forms of the same name in other languages; Maddie and Maddy are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Madelaine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,204 people named Madelaine in 2020, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Madelaine compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Madelaine is the 806th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Madelaine?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madelaineThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Madelaine” — the 806th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.