Madonna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ' From an Italian title of the Virgin Mary (literally ‘my lady’), applied to countless Renaissance paintings of a beautiful young woman (with and without an infant), representing the mother of Christ
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Madonna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 47K(measured from records)
- GEGeorgia1 in 463as მადონა
- EGEgypt≈1 in 31Kas Madona
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 Madonna 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.
- Georgia (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
8,625 named მადონა
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Madona in GE Georgia, US United States, EG Egypt and 4 more.
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)
' From an Italian title of the Virgin Mary (literally ‘my lady’), applied to countless Renaissance paintings of a beautiful young woman (with and without an infant), representing the mother of Christ. Its use as a given name is a fairly recent phenomenon, arising among Americans of Italian descent. In the 1980s, the name became particularly
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madonna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE Georgia | #115 | 8,625as მადონა | 1 in 463 | 8.6K | Madona | 36 |
| US United States | — | 7,018 | 1 in 47K | 7K | Madona | 106 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Madona | 35 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 154K | listed | Madona | 54 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Madona | 27 |
| GY Guyana | — | 113 | 1 in 6.6K | 113 | Madona | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Madona | 7 |
8,625 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), counting the spelling მადონა. 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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Madonna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, from the person name Madonna, from donna ‘lady’, bestowed in honor of the Virgin Mary, or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Catholic contexts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do lat. mea domina, via ital. mia donna; pode indicar origem em localidades chamadas Madonna
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, the Virgin Mary; US singer, act
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Dutch, Madonna, in particular an artistic depiction of Mary with the infant Jesus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Joan Davisb. 1907USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and vaudevillian (1907–1961)
- Madonna Buderb. 1930USAmerican triathlete and nun
- Madonna Soctomahb. 1942USPassamaquoddy politician from Maine
- Madonna Harrisb. 1956NZNew Zealand sportswoman
- Madonnab. 1958USAmerican singer (born 1958)
- Nkechi Agwub. 1962NGnot in their usual nameNigerian mathematician and historian of mathematics
- Madonna Kingb. 1965Australian journalist, author and media commentator
- Madonna Blythb. 1985AUOlympic field hockey player
- Madonna Sebastianb. 1989INIndian actress
- Madonna ConstantineUSAmerican psychologist
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 64 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #16,074 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,347 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Madonna come from?
- ' From an Italian title of the Virgin Mary (literally ‘my lady’), applied to countless Renaissance paintings of a beautiful young woman (with and without an infant), representing the mother of Christ.… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Madonna mean?
- Recorded meaning: ' From an Italian title of the Virgin Mary (literally ‘my lady’), applied to countless Renaissance paintings of a beautiful young woman (with and without an infant), representing the mother of Christ.
- Is Madonna a male or female name?
- Madonna 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 Madonna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,018 people named Madonna in 2020, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Madonna compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Madonna is the 115th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Madonna?
- In the etymology graph, Madona is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Madonna have the most bearers?
- In Georgia, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named მადონა, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Madonna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Madonna is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madonnaThe 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, “Madonna” — the 115th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.