Maddalena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a female personal name taken from Mary Magdalene, i.e
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maddalena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- MDMoldova1 in 89K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 283K
- USUnited States1 in 307K
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
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
1,082 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a female personal name taken from Mary Magdalene, i.e. Mary of Magdala, mentioned in the Gospels. See also Maudlin. In Italy the surname can also be habitational, from any of the numerous places so named from the personal name.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maddalena 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 | 1,082 | 1 in 307K | 1.1K | Maddalena | 65 |
| ES Spain | 106 | 1 in 472K | 106 | Maddalena | 18 |
| PL Poland | 49 | 1 in 781K | 49 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 39 | 1 in 443K | 39 | — | 6 |
| MD Moldova | 38 | 1 in 89K | 38 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 36 | 1 in 283K | 36 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
1,082 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); e-services.md — living population register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Maddalena is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a female given name, equivalent to English Magdalene or Madeleine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do nome hebraico da cidade Migdal; matronímico ligado a Maria de Migdal/Magdalena
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, weibl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Abitante di Magdala
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Maddalena Viscontib. 1366ITDuchess of Bavaria (1366–1404)
- Maddalena de' Medicib. 1473FRItalian noble
- Magdalene von Sachsenb. 1507DEnot in their usual nameprincess of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (1507-1534)
- Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussiab. 1586DEnot in their usual nameElectress of Saxony
- Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine of Zweibrückenb. 1607DEnot in their usual nameCountess Palatine and Duchess of Birkenfeld (1607-1648)
- Magdalene Sibylle of Saxonyb. 1617DEnot in their usual namePrincess of Denmark and Norway; Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg (1617–1668)
- Magdalene Sibylle of Holstein-Gottorpb. 1631DEnot in their usual nameDuchess of Holstein-Gottorp by birth and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1631-1719)
- Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfelsb. 1648DEnot in their usual nameGerman noble (1648-1681)
- Magdalena Sibylla von Hessen-Darmstadtb. 1652DEnot in their usual nameregent of the Duchy of Württemberg and hymn lyricist (1652-1712)
- Countess Palatine Magdalena Claudia of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweilerb. 1668DEnot in their usual nameCountess Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler by birth and by marriage Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg
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 65 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Maddalena come from?
- from a female personal name taken from Mary Magdalene, i.e. Mary of Magdala, mentioned in the Gospels. See also Maudlin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Maddalena?
- In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Magali and Madeline are forms of the same name in other languages; Lena is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Maddalena mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a female personal name taken from Mary Magdalene, i.e.
- Is Maddalena a male or female name?
- Maddalena 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.
- In which country does Maddalena have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Maddalena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maddalena.
- Where is Maddalena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maddalena is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 89 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maddalena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,082 people named Maddalena in 2020, about 1 in 307 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maddalenaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Maddalena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.