Marie-Madeleine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marie-Madeleine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Compound of Marie + Madeleine (‘of Magdala’); listed as a double saint’s name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 39K
- MQMartinique≈1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Compound of Marie + Madeleine (‘of Magdala’); listed as a double saint’s name
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marie-Madeleine 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 12K | Marie-Madeleine | 164 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Marie-Madeleine | 4 |
| BE Belgium | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Marie-Madeleine | 21 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Marie-Madeleine | 3 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 474K | 1 | Marie-Madeleine | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Marie-Madeleine | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 20 | 1 in 864K | 20 | — | 3 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 5 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marie-Madeleine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Mary Magdalene (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, Duchess of Aiguillonb. 1604FRnot in their usual nameDuchesse of Aiguillon (1604-1675)
- Maria Magdalena de Birkenfeldb. 1622DEnot in their usual name(1622-1689)
- Marie-Madeleine Guimardb. 1743FRnot in their usual nameFrench ballerina (1743-1816)
- Marie-Madeleine Postelb. 1756FRnot in their usual nameFrench saint
- Marie-Madeleine Lachenaisb. 1778HTnot in their usual nameHaitian politician
- Marie-Madeleine d'Houëtb. 1781FRnot in their usual nameFrench widow and religious foundress (1781-1858)
- Marie-Madeleine Dieneschb. 1914FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (1914–1998)
- Madeleine Moreaub. 1928FRnot in their usual nameFrench diver (1928-1995)
- Corinne Cléryb. 1950FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Éléonore Faucherb. 1973FRnot in their usual nameFrench film director and screenwriter (1973–2023)
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
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
- What does the name Marie-Madeleine mean, and where does it come from?
- Compound of Marie + Madeleine (‘of Magdala’); listed as a double saint’s name Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- Is Marie-Madeleine a male or female name?
- Marie-Madeleine 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 Marie-Madeleine?
- In the etymology graph, Madeleine is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marie-Madeleine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Marie-Madeleine in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marie-madeleine.
- How common is the name Marie-Madeleine?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 20 people named Marie-Madeleine, about 1 in 864 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Marie-Madeleine?
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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, “Marie-Madeleine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.