Madelen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, variant of Madeleine
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/madelen/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Madelen is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 87K
- COColombia≈1 in 120K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,190 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name, variant of Madeleine
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Madelen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #912 | 2,190 | 1 in 2.5K | 8.3K | Madelen | 55 |
| SE Sweden | #692 | 1,797 | 1 in 5.7K | 1.8K | Madelen | 51 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 120K | 1 | — | — |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Madelen | 3 |
| US United States | — | 252 | 1 in 1.3M | 246 | Madelen | 85 |
| FI Finland | — | 56 | 1 in 99K | 69 | Madelen | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 39 | 1 in 87K | 39 | — | — |
2,190 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)- Madelen Urietab. 1981ESSpanish basketball player (born 1981)
- Linda Westerlund Sneckerb. 1983SEnot in their usual namepolitician and Member of the parliament of Sweden
- Madelen Janogyb. 1995SESwedish association football player
- Madelen Bergb. 1995NONorwegian journalist
- Madelen Fjeldb. 2001NONorwegian handball player
- Madelen Erika Rønvikb. 2002NONorwegian association football player
- Madelen Koldal Holmeb. 2002NONorwegian association football player
- Madelen Hernarb. 2003NONorwegian association football player
- Madelen Kringstad Leitnerb. 2005NOgymnast
- Madelen Dalland LarødNONorwegian association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Madelen mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, variant of Madeleine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Madelen?
- In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Madeline and Madeleine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Madelen?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /madelen/; in Swedish /madeleːn/; in Norwegian /mɑdəln̩/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Madelen a male or female name?
- Madelen is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Norway (SSB) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Madelen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Madelen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madelen.
- Where is Madelen most common?
- Madelen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Madelen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,190 people named Madelen in 2025, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Madelen compared with other names?
- In Norway, Madelen is the 912th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Madelen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madelenThe 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, “Madelen” — the 912th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.