Madelief
given name · Latin script
Meaning: common daisy (Bellis perennis)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maːdəlif/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Madelief is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- ZASouth Africa
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
common daisy (Bellis perennis)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Madelief 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 German, weibl. Vom. niederländischer Her kunft (zu niederländ. madeHefje »Gänseblüm chen«). Die Vergabe dieses Vornamens geht au f das gleichnamige Kinderbuch von Guus
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Madelief Verelstb. 1986NLDutch actress
- Madelief Blankenb. 1989NLDutch actress
- Madelief Broosb. 2004NLDutch actress
- Madelief Vermeulenactress
- Madelief HorstNLDutch 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)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 4.3K | #474 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 2.5K | #1,193 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2016 | 88 | #159 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 59 | #235 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #29,095 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,111 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2011 | 6 | #1,301 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2010 | 5 | #1,502 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2009 | 5 | #1,458 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2007 | 5 | #1,357 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2003 | 5 | #1,234 |
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 Madelief mean, and where does it come from?
- common daisy (Bellis perennis) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Madelief a male or female name?
- Madelief 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 Madelief have the most bearers?
- Madelief is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- How do you pronounce Madelief?
- A machine transcription gives /maːdəlif/ (IPA) for Dutch.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madeliefThe 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, “Madelief”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.