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Madilynn

Madilynn reached its high-water mark in 2014 at number 479, and has been recorded 11,432 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 859th. About 11,000 Madilynns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Madilynn

By the numbers

Total US births
11,432
Estimated living today
11,000
Median age today
11
Peak year
2014
Best rank
479th
Rank in 2025
859th
First recorded
1987

How old the living Madilynns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 11,432 babies given the name since 1987, about 11,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 9,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Rare fanciful spelling of Madeline.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Madilynn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Madilynn is most concentrated in Idaho (2.1×), Oklahoma (1.9×), Indiana (1.8×), Missouri (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2014

The most popular girls’ names the year Madilynn peaked:

All the names of 2014

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Madilynn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.