Madeline
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Form of Magdalen, ‘of Magdala’; chiefly used in Ireland; from St Mary Magdalen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/madəʎɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Madeline is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 74th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.2K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Madeline itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 518 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
143,899 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Form of Magdalen, ‘of Magdala’; chiefly used in Ireland; from St Mary Magdalen.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Madeline, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madeline 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 | #608 | 143,899 | 1 in 2.3K | 144K | Madeline | 518 |
| SE Sweden | — | 23,556as Madeleine | 1 in 433 | 24K | Madeline | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | #587 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 12 | Madeline | 208 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Madeline | 71 |
| AU Australia | #467 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 145 | Madeline | 187 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,229as Madeleine | 1 in 2.5K | 8.1K | Madeline | 13 |
| JM Jamaica | #74 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Madeline | 5 |
143,899 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Madeline is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Variant of Madeleine, common especially in Ireland.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, weibl. Vom., englische ['maedlin]
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)
- Madeline Lee Gilfordb. 1923USAmerican actress, producer and activist (1923–2008)
- Yvonne Brillb. 1924CAnot in their usual nameCanadian scientist (1924-2013)
- Madeline Kahnb. 1942USAmerican actress, singer (1942-1999)
- Madeline Manningb. 1948USAmerican athletics competitor
- Madeline Smithb. 1949GBBritish actress
- Madeline Millerb. 1978USAmerican writer (born 1978)
- Madeline Zimab. 1985USAmerican actress, writer, and director (born 1985)
- Madeline Brewerb. 1992USAmerican actress
- Madelaine Petschb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and YouTuber
- Madeline Carrollb. 1996USAmerican actress (born 1996)
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 84 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 144K | #393 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 198 | #393 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 195 | #5,316 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 130 | #6,474 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 80 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2019 | 72 | #98 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2022 | 55 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2024 | 17 | #88 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2024 | 17 | #88 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 16 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 15 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- How do you pronounce Madeline?
- A machine transcription gives /madəʎɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Madeline?
- In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Lena and Magali are forms of the same name in other languages; Maddie and Maddy are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Madeline mean, and where does it come from?
- Form of Magdalen, ‘of Magdala’; chiefly used in Ireland; from St Mary Magdalen. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Madeline a male or female name?
- Madeline 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.
- How common is the name Madeline?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143,899 people named Madeline in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Madeline compared with other names?
- In the United States, Madeline is the 608th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Madeline have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 144 thousand people named Madeline, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madeline.
- Where is Madeline most common?
- Madeline is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Madeline?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madelineThe 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, “Madeline” — the 608th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.