Madena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Magdalena/Madeleine; from Hebrew Magdala, a place name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mədɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Madena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 150K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9M
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
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
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)
125 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Magdalena/Madeleine; from Hebrew Magdala, a place name.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madena 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 | 125 | 1 in 2.7M | 122 | Madena | 18 |
| GY Guyana | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
125 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Madena 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.
In French, Forme féminine de Maden; origine celtique, « épée ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Latvian, pilsēta Turcijā ("Maden"), Elazīgas ilā, 5000 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
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 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Madena mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Magdalena/Madeleine; from Hebrew Magdala, a place name. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Madena?
- A machine transcription gives /mədɪnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Madena a male or female name?
- Madena 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 Madena have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 125 people named Madena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madena.
- Where is Madena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Madena is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Madena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 125 people named Madena in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Madena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madenaThe 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, “Madena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.